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An interesting and informative study that explains how ice cores have a volcanic signature and how it is possible to pinpoint specific eruptions - go

Garys also sent in this link to www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/06/tardigrades-may-have-survived-sp... ... which appears to be another manifestation of journalistic alarmism - humans setting loose life on the

Gary sent in a cluster of links. For example, at www.space.com/lava-flows-earth-magnetic-field-reversal.html ... which concerns magnetic pole flips and associated volcanism. We are informed the process

New Zealand is known for some unusual birds, from flightless (such as the kiwi) to over large (such as the Moa). It once harboured giant

Success! We have just decarbonised a large part of Britain's national grid. This was a comment at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/black-friday-did-wind-farm-fa... ... the electricity blackout last week came

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/archaeologists-disco... ... the 'Boyne to Brodgar' project has come up with around 40 previously unknown monuments in the vicinity of Newgrange - including one

Gary sent in a link to www.space.com/jupiter-impact-flash-photo-august-2019.html ... which is a video film of a bright flash on Jupiter captured by an amateur astronomer. It

A few weeks ago, Weather Eye in The Times of London had a short piece beginning, 'something strange is happening to plants: their leaves seem

At https://phys.org/news/2019-08-kepler-forgotten-ideas-symmetry-spiral.html ... Johannes Kepler was interested in symmetry - in such things as snowflakes as well as in space. Kepler suggested it was due

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/mechanism-for-gamma-... ... short and intense flashes of energetic radiation, known as gamma ray bursts, were discovered back in the late 1960s by the Vela

At http://spaceweather.com August 10th 2019 ... a new source of space radiation  has been discovered by researchers from UCLA. A 'natural' particle accelerator just 40,000

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/spanish-archaeologis... ... a large building dating to the middle of the Spanish Bronze Age (between 2100 and 1500BC) is associated with new settlers who

Gary sent in the link to www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/fossil-forest-asia-devonian-period... ... the oldest fossil forest in Asia (or the oldest until an older one is uncovered). It goes

At https://phys.org/news/2019-08-maya-warlike-previously-thought.html ... we have the concept of total warfare during the Classic Maya period. The evidence for this is said to come from lake

Scientists have discovered previously undetected observational evidence of frequent energetic pulses transporting energy from the solar surface to the higher solar atmosphere. Magnetic plasma waves

Gary also sent in a link to www.newscientist.com/article/2211699-the-amazon-rainforest-depends-on-fi... ... it seems the Amazon rainforest gets most of its phosphorous from cooking fires and landscape fires

This is one of those things most people would be unaware of - a church dedicated to Peter and Andrew, two of the apostles in

Gary also sent in this link - https://mol.im/a/7317361 .. which is from his mobile (see www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7317361/) and concerns a graveyard discovered during building work at

Interesting set of links and news items in the September issue of Current Archaeology 354 - which begins with the Mesolithic site at Blick Mead

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-asteroid-earth.html ... Hat tip to William. An asteroid buzzed the earth and was barely noticed. It was 100m across and passed just 70,000 km