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An amateur archaeologist and photographer has discovered what looks like two hidden hill forts by the use of laser light technology. Fantastic work - see

Robert sent in this one and it is a cracker - go to https://phys.org/news/2020-05-window-world-life-seafloor-petroleum.html ... window to another world beneath the waves, bubbling up on

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-fossils-rewrite-... ... you could have fooled me but we are told here that scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic

It's raining plasma on the sun. A massive prominence is jutting out and its leaking plasma - see https://spaceweather.com (5th May 2020). Mysteriously, some of

Actually, the title is wrong. Why people do not seem to have suffered the same dramatic effects of the Black Death in earlier incidents of

At https://spaceweather.com (30th April 2020) we have an image of Comet Swan with a very long tail trailing behind. It will make its closest approach

At arch warmer site https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/a-puzzling-past-sea-level-rise-m... .... tells us sea levels have jumped surprisingly quickly and steeply in the past. It is funny how problems for

At https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/ancient-mongol-warrior-women-may... .... the story of Mulan, who disguises herself as a man to fight for the Chinese emperor, may have been inspired by real

This post was prompted by a question from a member of SIS - what is the progress and current thinking on the Meghalayan? Well, they

This is one of those quotes that might haunt the interviewee. At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-laws-nature-downright-weird-constant.html ... in this study we are told new findings suggest the laws

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/study-traces-spread-of-early-dairy-farming... ... study traces the spread of early dairy farming across western Europe. This is down to the new technique of chemically analysing food

On its way on Wednesday, a big rock passing by - see https://spaceweather.com April 28th 2020 ...

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-tomanowos-meteorite-survived-mega-floods-h... ... this is about an iron meteorite find in Oregon, the so called Willamette meteor. The local Indian tribe, the Clackamas, called it

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fossil-frogs-insights-ancient-antarctica.html ... the discovery of the earliest known modern amphibians in Antarctica suggests, once again, a warm and temperate climate prevailed in the Antartic

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-atmospheric-tidal-venus-super-rotation.html ... atmospheric tidal waves maintain the super rotation speed of Venus - courtesy of Hokkaido University (Japan). The tidal waves are formed from

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-alma-reveals-unusual-composition-interstel... ... ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, has disovered some unusual things about interstellar Comet Borisov, late last year (December 2019). They observed

Planet 9 is somewhat different to Planet X as it is projected, or was invented, in order to explain anomalies in the orbits of objects

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/methane-forms-under-space-con... ... methane forms under space conditions simulated in a laboratory in Leiden University (the Netherlands). Methane is the main ingredient of natural gas

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-lopsided-universe/ ... which is another take on the possibility the unverse is not the same in every direction. Recent findings say clusters of galaxies

ASt www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/researchers-challenge-accuracy-of-methods-... ... researchers challenge the accuracy of methods that analyse trees of life. The paper is published in Nature (April 2020). Two scientists argue