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Baby Yingliang
27 December 2021 > BiologySent in by gary - which continues the theme of dinosaurs ... www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10332483/ ... a Chinese fossil of a dinosaur egg - and inside, a
Millipedes as Big as Cars
27 December 2021 > BiologyRobert sent in some interesting links, such as https://phys.org/news/2021-12-millipedes-big-cars-roamed-northern.html ... millipedes as big as cars roamed northern England. The link has an image which shows
Explosive Galaxy
27 December 2021 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-12-image-hubble-views-galaxy-explosive.html ... the Hubble space telescope, had a side view of NGC3568, a spiral galaxy. It recorded what is attributed by NASA and ESA
Jesus in the News
27 December 2021 > ArchaeologyIt's Christmas and Jesus themed stories usually accrue at this time of year. Very often involving the identification of the star that guided the 3
Clovis Gone
27 December 2021 > ArchaeologyAt www.hhmi.org/news/clovis-people-spread-central-and-south-america-then-va... ... DNA evidence of the spread of Clovis people determined they had disappeared 9000 years ago - replaced by a new group of
Brachiopods, Aurochs, and Fungi
27 December 2021 > BiologyBrachiopods are small, shelled, filter feeding ocean dwellers that are extremely abundant and well preserved in the fossil record. These qualities make them ideal for
Venus and alien life
27 December 2021 > AstronomyGary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10332753/ ... life forms could be living in the clouds of Venus. It appears to come from the same
Speaking of the Devil
22 December 2021 > AstronomyThunderbolts posted their piece a couple of days ago - see yesterday's post on astronomy,, and here we are on Wednesday with a brilliant view
Black Hole Twins and Quartets
21 December 2021 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-12-astronomers-spy-quartet-cavities-giant.html ... astronomers have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the centre of a galaxy cluster, using NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory. It
Faeroes
21 December 2021 > ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-12-humans-remote-north-atlantic-islands.html ... lake sediments from the Faeroes have drawn some interesting information. Humans were living on the islands as early as AD500 - some
The Mystery of Sand
14 December 2021 > GeologyGary sent in this link www.yahoo.com/news/why-sand-mafias-forming-science-124003906.html .... William actually sent the link to Gary who forwarded it on to SIS. The mainstream theory is that
Einstein Theory
14 December 2021 > PhysicsAt https://phys.org/news/2021-12-einstein-greatest-theory-extreme-stars.html ... an international team of scientists has been looking at extreme stars known as pulsars, through seven radio telescopes around the world. They
Planet in orbit around two stars
11 December 2021 > AstronomyWilliam also sent in a link to www.yahoo.com/news/massive-planet-10-times-bigger-224427538.html ... and you can read the same story at https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2021-12-10-planet-ten-times-t... ... and https://phys.org/news/2021-12-large-telescope-images-planet-massive.html ... which is all
Mammoths and Horses 3000BC
11 December 2021 > BiologyGary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetrech/article-10293777/ ... DNA evidence of mammoths and horses in the Yukon - just 5000 years ago. In other words,
Roman Crucifixion
11 December 2021 > ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-12-year-old-leather-armor-technology-antiquit... ... leather scale armour found in the tomb of a horse rider in NW China has been compared with similar armour from the
Sunlight Eating Algae
9 December 2021 > BiologyBiology is a funny thing, especially when you mix it in with hypothetical computer induced cycles. See https://www.sciencealert.com/natural-cycles-in-earth-s-orbit-can-drive-b... ....If you are a computer geek and
Forbrush Decrease
9 December 2021 > AstronomyAt https://spaceweather.com [3rd December 2021] ... a sudden drop in atmospheric radiation was caused by a 'cannibal CME' that brushed earth's atmosphere. It sparked auroras
Saxons and Nefertiti
3 December 2021 > ArchaeologyGary sent in the link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCHtdpymNw ... which is a video of Francis Prior, the archaeologist, and prolific writer and former member of Time
Golden Oldie
3 December 2021 > CatastrophismThis comes courtesy of George Howard at https://cosmictusk.com/oldie-goodie-carolina-coast-uk-catastrophically-i... ... this is essentially a report from 2012 - but interesting never the less. Both the coasts
Plasma Winds
3 December 2021 > ElectromagnetismRobert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-11-strong-power-electric-fields-upper.html ... with the comment, a plasma wind = am electric current. The authors postulate a bottom up approach,