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At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-giant-halo-andromeda-galaxy.html ... NASA sientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have mapped out an immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy,

At https://sputniknews.com/science/202008271080280560-siberia-was-major-cen... ... genetic studies, as outlined by Paul Reich, show that Siberia had an extensive population during the Late Glacial Maximum. The comments at

At https://spaceweather.com (26th August 2020) ... earth has entered a stream of high speed solar wind, not from a sun spot as the face of

Robert sent in this link and added, it seems that when Velikosky suggested Venus and Mars may have had errant orbits that was inadmissable but

At https://cultureandcosmos.org/pdfs/16/MacKie_INSAPVII_Stonehenge.pdf ... Euan MacKie, a founder member of SIS, on Stonehenge. He usually confines himself to the archaeology of Scotland but on this occasion

At www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2020/20-04.aspx ... in Australia the arrival and dispersal of early humans is complicted by a lack of ceramics and permanent structures. Aborigines were mobile,

At www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/discoveries-iona-rewrite-history-sac... ... discoveries on Iona show the sacred isle was not abandoned following Viking raids in the early 9th century AD. Monastic life continued.

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/21/a-lightning-barrage-puts-the-west... ... during late August hudreds of fires have ignited as a result of hundreds of lightning strikes over western USA. Major fires were

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-robotic-telescope-closest-asteroid-earth.html ... on August 16th a robotic survey camera at Palomar Observatory near San Diego spotted an asteroid, or lump of rock, that had

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-hole-powers-jet-magnetic.html ... here we have an admission that the black hole in the heart of galaxies has an electro-magnetic connection. The downside is that

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaurs-unique-bone-key-weight.html ... weighing upt to 8000lb the Hadrosaur, or duck billed dinosaurs, were among the largest dinosaurs to roam the earth. How did theri

Gary sent in a link to www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/mysterious-carvings-evidence-... ... mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered at an ancient chinese city. Apart from the click

Sent in by William. At www.yahoo.com/news/pothole-space-evolving-dent-earths-141150074.html ... there is an evolving dent in earth's magnetic field over South America and the South Atlantic. NASA is

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-mystery-gas-center-milky.html ... a mystery gas has been detected seeping out of the centre of the Milky Way, a dense cold gas apparently. Exactly how

This is an interesting story at https://phys.org/news/2020-08-microbes-air-global-phenomenon.html ... researchers have found bacteria living on air in Antarctica. They think it probably occurs globally and set

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-giants-small-oddbal-australia.html ... Little and Large were a UK comedy duo. Very often corny, but amusing as far as family audiences are concerned. In this

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-sun-life-binary-companion.html ... our Sun may have had a binary companion at one time. This is presented as a new theory by Harvard scientists publishing

Coming back down to earth we have the August newsletter from www.sepp.org ... which is a review of what happened in July on the climate

William sent in this link to a story that has been fairly popular across the internet as well as in media sources with a strong

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-genomes-woolly-rhinos-extinct.html ... ancient genomes suggest the woolly rhinocerus went extinct due to climate change - not from overhunting. On the face of it, this