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Another study seeking to explain an anomaly. Did the nitrogen on earth have an origin in the rocks that make up the crust. See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-earth-nitrogen-locally-sourced.html

Lateral thinking at the Scotsman media outlet - or is that vertical thinking [see www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/new-stone-age-immigrants-fr... ]. This is a new look at the onset of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-scientists-black-holes-stupendously-large.... ... whilst small to medium size black holes continue to remain invisible cosmologists are now putting forward the idea there are stupendously large

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/01/15/the-lake-victoria-cosmic-massacre-2/ ... the author, Mungo Jupp, ask's - is there a connection between Australia's lunettes and Carolina's oval bays? The lunettes are scattered around

This is bracketed under catastrophism as the 14th century famines and plagues were catastrophic. It is also assigned to catastrophism as a lot of this

Links sent in by Gary who has some interesting ideas on Egyptian iconography and history. As far as I can tell this story is only

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-mistaken-identity-presumed-supernova-rever... ... here we have mainstream backtracking on itself. Astronomers thought they were looking at a supernova but oddly it appeared to recurr on

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geologic-history-written-garnet-sand.html ... the eastern edge of New Guinea was or is a plate boundary it is thought and has therefore captured a bit of

One story circulating on the Net in the aftermath of Christmas covers a new study that is said to have found evidence of severe drought

Genetic research is spreading far and wide across the world, so much so it has now reached some very remote places - see https://phys.org/news/2021-01-genome-people-asia-stone-age.html ...

The recent outbreak of Covid 19 has triggered an enormous amount of new research on the various covid viral manifestations which has to be good.

An interesting one emerging from the woodwork. At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-breatharian-bacteria-breakdown-greenhouse-... ... breatherian bacteria break down greenhouse gases. Some bacteria living in soils can break down toxic

The headline at this link is, why have so few Milky Way supernovas  been observed over the last millennium? See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-milky-supernovae-millennium.html ... a mystery as

At https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/faces-of-siberian-tutankhamu... ... a tomb in Tuva  with the burial of a Scythian king and his favourite concubine is extremely well preserved and the faces

Do crocodiles confound evolution, the idea that life forms evolve over time. One to ponder at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-crocodiles-age-dinosaurs.html ... whilst it is probably the way the

At https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/prehistoric-people-devel... ... prehistoric Siberians developed a technique for turning woolly mammoth ivory into a playdough like material that was easily worked. Going back 12,000

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/first-detection-of-a-built-in... ... seems like Tall Bloke got his story from EOS - see https://eos.org/research-spotlights/first-detection-of-a-built-in-wobble... ... the Earth's equivalent, we are told, is the Chandler

The headline talks about Doggerland sinking but the meat of the story seems to be a change in sea levels. At www.dw.com/en/doggerland-how-did-the-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-sink/a-55... ... Doggerland, the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-uncertainties-cosmic-expansion.html ... There are different methods for determining the cosmic rate of expansion of the universe, and these have revealed precise but mutually inconveniently

Both William and Gary sent in links to this story. At www.yahoo.com/news/woolly-rhino-remains-found-melting-151024751.html ... and www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9096475/ ... the carcass of a woolly rhinoceros, a juvenile, has