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At https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists ... back in September of 2022, Sabine Hossenfelder had a fascinating article in The Guardian. The subject was particle physics - and the

At https://www.spaceweather.com [November 21st 2022] we learn that two months after NASAs DART spacecraft slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, debris from the collision is still visible.

William brought up this subject by asking me if I had seen the Nextflix programme. I don't have Netflix, so no. However, it then cropped

Reproductive activity fossil. In plain language, a pregnant animal that has been fossilised - see https://phys.org/news/2022-11-messel-boa-birth-million-year-old-snake.html ... the famous Messel Pit quarry in Germany has

At https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/staggering-disconnect-climate-summit-boasts-opulent-beef-seafood-menu-despite-spearheading-anti-meat-initiatives/ ... staggering disconnect - climate summit boasts opulent beef and seafood menu [lots of rich people with a sophisticated diet] at a climate

At SIS we know that dynasty 18 pharaoh Thutmose III claims to have taken part in an elephant hunt in Syria. We have even had

At https://phys.org/news/2022-11-video-solar-snake-slithering-sun.html ... you've heard of slithering in the Harry Potter movies, here we have a video of a slithering snake of plasma that was

Robert sent in a couple of links. The first one concerns volcanism on the moon - see https://www.livescience.com/china-rover-moon-volcanism ... was  the moon's surface molten far

A terrific piece of research - highly innovative - see https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043084 ... and see also https://phys.org/news/2022-11-synthetic-black-holes-real.html ... to make a synthetic black hole, take a

Sent in by William - https://news.yahoo.com/jupiters-aurora-triggered-planet-wide-113000440.html ... Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet wide heat wave. Solar plasma caused the aurora at it north pole. Subsequently,

At https://notrickszone.com/2022/11/08/belief-of-steady-5300-year-climate-unravels-otzi-got-exposed-again-and-again/ .. researchers now say the 5300 year old Oetzi corpse did not remain covered by ice since 3300BC [formerly 3200BC prior to IntCal

In January of 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Hai'pai submarine volcano erupted violently. It's intensity was VEI-6, similar to Pinatubo in 1991. However, in the recent

Australia has two marine parks on the Indian Ocean side of the continent. One is based around the Cocos, or Keeling, islands. Australia's  National Science

Most theories on how the moon formed involve a giant impact of some kind. After an analysis of fluids, and electrically conducting fluids, they came

The reason why a lot of ordinary people don't take much notice of climate change is that so many lies are told by the alarmist

At https://spaceweather.com [October 31st, 2022] ... we have the headline, 'The Taurid Swarm is Coming' - a reference to the Halloween Taurid stream that is

Robert sent in a series of links. He is an avid astronomy enthusiast - but sceptical of some of the mainstream assumptions. He wonders if

Miyake events are named after the Japanese lead author of a study that first brought them to the notice of the wider world of science.

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/insects-can-have-similar-effects-on-atmospheric-electricity-as-weather-events-say-researchers/ ... Darwin was puzzled by 'aeronaut spiders' appearing from nowhere on his ocean going trips. By measuring the electric fields near swarming honeybees

At https://phys.org/news/2022-10-central-asia-key-region-human.html ... archaeologists are catching up with the geneticists. After the latter discovered the Denisovans living close to Neanderthals in central Asia a new