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The Mezmaiskaya cave is important as far as Neanderthals are concerned, and their replacement by modern humans - see https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/five-new-ancient-genomes-tell-us... ... five new genomes tell

An archaeological mystery. Tumuli in the islands of New Caledonia - courtesy of the latest issue of Popular Archaeology - see https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-mystery-of-the-tumuli/ ... We are

Over the past ten years a number of studies have detected what is thought to be an excess of gamma ray radiation at the centre

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-lava-tubes-exploration-priority-worlds.html ... why lava tubes should be a priority when visiting other planets. When magma comes out of the innards of the earth it

Here we have a graphic illustration of how the BBC does climate science. We've endured their political shenanigans over Covid 19 and the pure theatre

Gary also sent in this link to https://aeon.com/essays/decoding-the-ancient-tale-of-mass-suicide-in-the... ... the Masada mystery. Decoding the tale of mass suicide as described by Josephus. Have archaeologists exploited

Gary sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2020-07-electrical-tomato.html ... it seems the soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signalling. These provide signals among plants,

Now for the big scruncher. A bit of old hat perhaps but it paints a catastrophic picture in the period when the Neanderthals disappeared. See

At https://anthropology.net/2020/07/08/polynesians-contacted-native-america... ... lots of speculation on the part of Polynesian contact with the Americas has been the norm for a number of years. It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-plate-tectonics-rewrites-history-earth.html ... plate tectonics research rewrites the history of earth's continents, we are told. Or is it a bit of jiggery pokery with the

Comet Neo wise is just some 5 km across. No wonder it is naked eye visible. It has also survived its journey around the Sun

Seems like mainstream might be waking up to electro-magnetism in space. Gary sent in a link to www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-magnetic-universe-begins-to-come-into-... ... which concerns magnetic fields in space.

Sent in by Gary - see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8483763/ ... it seems the moon's crust is richer in metals than the crust of the earth. That is

A more interesting idea is at https://phys.org/news/2020-06-spacecraft-solar-patterns-expose-moon.html ... data from serveral NASA mission spacecraft show that wind created by high speed particles, the solar wind,

A bounty of new papers on black holes has struck this month for some reason. At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-giant-black-holes-jupiter.html ... to find a black hole start with

At www.jpost.com/international/archaeologists-find-underwater-sites-belongi... ... two underwater sites containing Aboriginal artefacts such as stone tools have been discovered on the bottom of the Australian continental shelf system,

Amazing grace saves a wretch. I have seen the light and changed my mind. See for example https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/30/amazing-grace-saves-a-wretch/ ... which is about someone changing their

William sent in a link to www.yahoo.com/news/study-finds-asteroid-impact-not-190949370.html ...but see also https://phys.org/news/2020-06-asteroid-impact-volcanoes-earth-uninhabita... ... this concerns the conflict of interest between geologists over the K/T event. Was

Not strictly globalism, as in the modern world, which is corporatist, but something like that - according to https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-ships/was-there-a-viking... ... was there a viking age

It is assumed by cosmologists that matter falling into a black hole is accelerated and compressed until it is virtually destroyed inside the so called