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At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-asteroid-material-deposited-large-impacts.... ... the moon, we are told, has no core dynamo or magnetic field. However, spacecraft have detected numerous strong localised magnetic fields in

Sent in by Willia. What is that ancient mammoth tusk doing at the bottom of the ocean? See https://weather.com/news/trending/video/what-is-ancient-mammoth-tusk-doi... ... what is an ancient mammoth

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-largest-comet-near-record-distance.html ... the largest comet ever observed seems to have been active a long way out from the Sun. Largest ever is restricted to

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-sun-unaccounted-source-earth.html ... an interesting new study - the Sun might be an unaccounted source of water on earth. See www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01487-w ... a University of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-loss-ancient-grazers-triggered-global.html ... this is what happens when you pick up on one element of an event. The demise of ancient herbivores, called grazers, triggered

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ions-comets.html ... this sounds a bit like electric comets - see www.thunderbolts.info for more on that point of view. This is different. It is

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-collapse-ancient-liangzhu-culture-climate.... ... Liangzhu was located in eastern China in what was then the Neolithic in that part of the world. Thye didn't use metal.

At www.researchgate.net/publication/349448597_A_global_environmental_crisis... ... geological archives are said to record multiple episodes of reversals of earth's magnetic poles but the effect on the world at large

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-smaller-grain-sand-phytoplankton-key.html ... smaller than a grain of sand, phytoplankton are key to aquatic health. They transform organic contaminants in water into less toxic chemicals.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-justinianic-plague-flu-struck-england.html ... plague sceptics are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that plague had in the 6th and 7th centuries AD, according to a

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-solar-eruptions.html ... new research into magnetic fields which form inside the Sun and cause violent eruptions. The idea is to predict solar flares. Mathematicians

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dinosaur-species-greenland-million-years.html ... a dinosaur that lived 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland is described as a long necked herbivore, a predecessor

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-siege-ramps-breached-walls-ancient.html ... siege ramps and the breached walls of ancient Lachish. A team of archaeologists have reconstructed how the Assyrian army may have built

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-unearthing-seismic-subduction-zones.html ... subduction zones are central to Plate Tectonics theory. One plate is thought to slide under another in order to compensate for new

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-near-earth-asteroid-lost-fragment-moon.html ... a Near Earth asteroid could be a fragment of our moon, according to a research paper in Nature Communications. It orbits the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-astronomers-supernovae-superwinds-galaxies... ... when astronomers have observed superwinds travelling at extremely high speeds from star clusters, known as starbursts, they have generally assumed the winds

Following on from yesterday. At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-vast-patches-glassy-chilean-ancient.html ... deposits of dark silicate dust are strewn across a 75 km long corridor in the Atacame desert of

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/08/20/the-shocking-truth/ ... Andrew Hall is a man with some interesting ideas on geology. His talks, at conference, are always well received, and the various

I never know whether to take Thunderbolts seriously as they present their electric universe theory as if it is fact rather than a theory. The

Another link sent in by Gary. See https://phys.org/news/2021-09-geologists-half-century-old-mystery-animal... ... the mystery is a geological one. Perforations in an Australian rock section, namely in a quartzite,