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At https://spaceweather.com (2nd April 2020) Comet Atlas again ...    ... it has now sprouted a tail. It is still too dim to see with

At www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5 ... the mid Cretaceous was one of the warmest periods in the history of the earth - which is why it pops up

At https://astrobites.org/2020/04/04/nitrogen-67P/ a case of missing nitrogen on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) as relayed back by the Rosetta Mission. Comets are thought to produce information on

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/27/coral-tells-own-tale-about-el-nio... ... ancient corals in the Pacific have been found to be a record of past water temperature - and the comings and goings

Japanese sky watchers, back in the year 620AD, recorded a streak of red light in the night sky and compared it with the colourful tail

At www.dw.com/en/german-archaeologists-unearth-massive-mammoth-tusk/a-52947985 ... archaeologists in Bavaria, excavating a medieval settlement, found a bonus - they stumbled upon on older find. Much older. An ice age

Sent in by Robert a few days ago. Data from NASAs Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus 30 years ago has been reconsidered and they have

Anthony's blog is sceptical of global warming and the whole climate change merry go round but it is not necessarily sceptical of the other sciences,

At https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-stone-age-humans-unlocked-glucos... ... grinding stones were an evolutionary success story. They allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flours. Plants rich in

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-powerful-ion-nasa-dart-mission.html ... we have a report on NASAs DART mission which is designed to intercept a possible asteroid strike on Earth at an ill

The image below is a hill in South Africa with exposed strata from before and after the Permian extinction event (in geological terminology, a Member

This story is at various blogs and web sites as well as media outlets. Mind you it has got buried underneath the wall to wall

According to the post at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_plateau ... the Hallstatt Plateau is a term used in archaeology that refers to a flat area in radiocarbon dating

A research study found fossilised rodent matter in the La Brea Tar Pits in California. In fact, hundreds of fossilised pellets which were C14 dated

At https://spaceweather.com/ (24th March 2020) ... the size of comet Atlas - nobody knows how big the icy core of the comet is but its

An article in Science Advances (March 18th 2020) is interesting - see https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/eaaz1096 .. and https://phys.org/news/2020-03-fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-rewrite-anc... ... which promises much but delivers little. Radiocarbon dating

This seems to have been published in the journal Antiquity but various media outlets have spread the news. For example www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51930545 ... and www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uoe-mbc031220.php ...

Robert sent in  this link - see image below ...    ... Robert makes the comment, 'in the aerial photgraph do you see a faint

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-shifts-deep-geologic-magnified-great.html .... reference to the earthquake and tsunani that struck Japan back in 2011. It was the 4th most powerful sisnce modern record keeping

A key symbol in Electric Universe and Plasma studies has popped up again ... At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-ancient-mantis-man-petroglyph-iran.html ... see also https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.29.39400 ... a rock carving, or