In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-giant-particle-sky.html ... the earth's magnetic field traps high energy particles in order to thwart their entry into the atmosphere. When the first satellites were

The sponge is the interior of a comet and the cavities are on the sun. At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-presence-resonating-cavities-sunspots.html ... sun spots are darker regions that appear

Link sent in by Kevin - www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/remains-grantham-road-archaeo... ... the remains of humans and ancient buildings have been unearthed during the construction of a by pass

Robert sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8718291/ ... Storm Francis, or Frankie, has exposed parts of a petrified Welsh forest  that has been submerged for

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/26/dinosaur-dooming-asteroid-struck-... ... the asteroid that struck earth at the K/T boundary came in at an angle of 60 degrees according to a new study.

At first I thought from the headline they were talking about petrified forests, but no. The stone forests (a sea of trees) are the pointy

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-blast-black-hole.html ... more properly, how to have a blast like a black hole. Researchers at Osaka University have successfully used short but powerful laser

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8705719/ ... a hillfort on Arthur's Seat, soaring above Edinburgh but commanding a view of the Firth of Forth. The ramparts are in the

This is a good one. Sent in by Gary. We have two links, https://www.space.com/37654-exoplanet-55-cranci-e-facts.html ... www.planetary.org/articles/the-different-kinds-of-exoplanets-you-meet-in... ... and here we have the different kind of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-japan-geologic-history-discovery-metamorph... ... Japan's geological history is now in question after the discovery of metamorphic rock with microdiamonds in it. Researchers in Japan have discovered

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/mammoth-central-found-mexico-airport-222432079.html ... and Robert sent in https://phys.org/news/2020-09-mammoth-central-mexico-airport-site.html ... which is a story that hit the media a couple of

At www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/magnificent-remains-of-judaean... ... the remains of a first temple period palace has been discovered under Jerusalem's promenade. These include carved stone which seem to have

William has compiled some futher information on the 1859 Carrington Event. In 'The Sun Kings: the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-decades-evolution-spiral-galaxies.html ... a new study questions decades of research on the evolution of spiral galaxies. This might be a game changer, as they say.

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-dating-nebra-sky-disk.html ... the Nebra Sun Disc has previously been dated to early European Bronze Age ....   ... German archaeologists have re-analysed  the data

At https://spaceweather.com (September 1st 2020) it would seem that on September 1st 1859 a ferocious solar storm engulfed our planet - breaching the magnetosphere, to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-3d-embryonic-sauropod-dinosaur-reveals.html ... a fossil titanosuar embryo with a modified 'egg tooth' or horn (an appendage of some kind that was apparently used to break

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fossil-trees-peru-central-andean.html ... published in Science Advances  - see https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz4724 ... or https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/35/eaaz4724.full ... researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute found a large fossil

Gary sent in 3 smashing links - all from the Daily Mail. The stories have done the rounds in the media, including at PhysOrg and

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/black-turbine-blade-can-cut-b... ... for years wind turbine operators denied their contraptions kill any birds. They even employ people to go round each day and pick