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William sent in the link https://eos.org/articles/glass-pearls-in-clam-shells-point-to-ancient-me... ... a story I do believe I noted a few weeks back - but never mind. It is a

Back in the day, the Jurassic perioid no less, central Europe was covered by a shallow sea - the so called Tethys Sea. A study

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-common-childhood-illness-neanderthals.html ... it begins by saying, 'It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals ....' etc. Was

A new study alters our understanding of how comets arrive form the outer limits of the solar  system and are funnelled into the inner solar 

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-technological-edomite-kingdom-10th-century... ... a paper on the emergence of the kingdom of Edom in the Iron Age has been published in the open access journal

This story takes us back to the ESA Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. Is it that long ago. Researchers are still sifting through

Weather Eye (Paul Simons) in The Times has been writing about purple haze glowing in the twilight sky just after sunset. Not auroral though in

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/09/14/scientists-confession-climate-models... ... Japanese MIT climate scientist has written a book. Dr Mototaka Nakamura received his doctorate at MIT and worked at NASA. The title

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-flying-reptile-s... ... a new species of pterosaur is among the largest ever flying animals according to a new study from Queen Mary University in

In the evolutionary model of human development the Lower Palaeolithic humans (such as Homo erectus), responsible for the Acheulian stone tool assemblage, mostly hand axes

A towering balloon like structure has been discovered near the centre of the Milky Way - a pair of radio emitting bubbles that are hundreds

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-year-old-swamp-brimming-bones-reveals.html ... a 12,000 year old swamp (taking us back roughly to the Younger Dryas period) brimming with bones reveals the ecosystem in which

William sent in a couple of nice links to the following story - go to www.yahoo.com/news/eyewitness-asteroid-killed-off-dinosaurs-161449999.html and https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/c16bf09f-f24d-315d-af0b-b1a5f4e63fb0/sci... ...dswhich concerns the K/T impact that contributed

At https://anthropology.net/2019/09/10/80000-year-old-le-rozel-footprints-i... ... French archaeologists have unearthed 257 Neanderthal footprints and 8 hand prints from a layer of fine dark sand deposited around 80,000 years

At http://spaceweather.com (September 12th, 2019) ... another interstellar visitor is passing through the solar system it has been suggested. This time it is definitely a

Robert sent in the link, https://phys.org/news/2019-09-saturn-impossible-rotation.html ... it seems Saturn may be prone to a bit of electromagnetic shimming and twisting which has thrown attempts

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/09/07/surprising-parallels-found-between-s... ... surprising parallels found between solar activity and hurricane development. This may not be so surprising in an electric universe scenario but it

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/09/05/new-papers-ex-noaa-climatologist-and... ... two new additions to the steadily increasing evidence that co2 plays a minimal role in climate change. A former NOAA climate scientist

DNA study illuminates South and Central Asian ancestryh - so it is said (go to https://phys.org/news/2019-09-largest-ever-ancient-dna-illuminates-mille... ... which includes the origins of the Indus Valley

At https://phys.org/news/2019-08-archaeologist-unearths-history-mississippi... ... the archaeology of the Mississippi River Valley is becoming clearer in spite of the intense agriculture taking place, now and in the