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This one appears, on the face of it, to be fighting a battle that has long been put to bed by mainstream - the Stonehenge

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-large-asteroid-chance.html ... a big space rock will pass between the orbits of the earth and the moon  this weekend. It will be just 100,000

At https://www.yahoo.com/news/earth-knocked-off-axis-over-194130839.html ... since 1980 earth's poles have drifted by about 13 feet. Not a great deal then - unless you believe the position of

Gary  sent in the link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11862699/ ... Venus is volcanically active we are told - scientists have found strong evidence to say so. Perhaps.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-giant-ant-fossil-ancient-arctic.html ... ants the size  of small songbirds - another find. Fossils of giant ants are known from Europe and other places. Big ants

William sent in a link to a National Geographical article in volume 243 No 2, March of 2023. Nadia Drake, 'Saturn: what put the rings

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-major-north-american-oil-source.html ... which is a reference to the Bakken shale formation that lies beneath a stretch of North Americ, from North Dakota into Canada.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-universe-dark-big.html ... we have the headline,  'The universe may have started with a dark big bang' - but does that mean an invisible explosion?

Water, water, everywhere ... in the universe. At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-venus-oceans-life-earth.html ... Venus is currently a planet which is incredibly hot at the surface. It had, or

Wal Thornhill died a few weeks ago and tributes have been popping up. In this instance the link here is to a forum piece on

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-homes-europe-monument-makers.html ... French archaeologists have found where the megalith builders lived - when not humping big stones around. Megalithic buildings first appear in a

Robert sent in this one, https://phys.org/news/2023-02-solar-gained-super-earth.html ... which is basically, what would happen in the solar system if it gained a super earth, a modeling

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ryugu-asteroid-sample-reveals-organic-rich.html ... samples from the Ryugu asteroid, collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, are organic rich. This sample was shared with US researchers and we

William setin the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/webb-telescope-spots-six-galaxies-192633089.html ... and comments - so much for theory. We must change our assumptions or we will get nowhere. The

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-radiocarbon-method-interaction-homo-sapiens.html ... the story is about yet another switch in C14 methodology - and no doubt a suite of new dates. Or am I

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-asteroid-scientists-rare-opportunity.html ... the asteroid Apophis was the subject of Nicholas Costa's book, Adam to Apophis, and its near fly by in 2029 and 2036,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hundreds-high-redshift-quasars.html ... astronomers are reporting the discovery of over 400 new high red shift quasars using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [DESI]. The findings

In between WW1 and 2 telegraph lines on the floor of the Atlantic were being snapped, by what are called turbidity currents. Scientists became aware

Ashley King of the Natural History Museum in London is doing the round of the talk circuit. During lockdown, on 20th February 2021, in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-fossil-discovery-reveals-complex-ecosystems.html ... in this piece we are at the Permian-Triassic boundary event, and its accompanying mass extinction of life. Some 80 per cent of