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A Chinese fossil trove - see https://phys.org/print472464235.html ... a team from two universities in China and one from the US has partially excavated a trove

At https://phys.org/print472235349.html ... a space rock exploded into a ball of fire above the Bering Sea without anybody actually seeing or reporting it. Not many

At https://phys.org/print432185795.html ... work on an extension of the Metro system under Los Angeles has found numerous fossilised remains of Pleistocene animals that once roamed

Phew, Saved by the bell. It seems clones of Dr Strangelove types have been blocked by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil - in the

At https://phys.org/print472115260.html ... Australian National University scientists have found that Earth is made of the same elements as the Sun but has less of the

At https://phys.org/print472149086.html ... data from the New Horizons mission is still filtering back and what has been revealed so far will be discussed at the

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/solar-tsunami-can-trigger-the... .... it begins by saying the next sun spot cycle can be expected to begin in 2020 according to The Hindu (see www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/solar-tsunami-can-trigger-the-sunspot-cycle/ar...

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/16/gwyn-morgan-talk-about-collusion-... ... it sounds like the tactics of the old style communists taking over trade unions but this appears to be a serious account

After spending the last couple of days ploughing through David Reich, 'Who We Are and How We Got Here; ancient DNA and the new science

Roberet sent in a link to www.space.com/dust-ring-discovered-mercury-orbit.html ... a dust ring has been discovered orbiting Mercury. Or one might put it another way, Mercury regular

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/14/astronomers-discover-83-supermass... ... I reported on this last week but at the link above we have some interesting comments (and some silly ones) - on

The Younger Dryas Boundary Event Hypothesis isn't going to bed any time soon. I'm sure this will to the disappointment of mainstream. James Kennett et

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/12/monster-solar-storm-that-hit-eart... ... scientists have found evidence of a large blast of radiation that struck the Earth in 660BC. Solar proton particles were involved and

At www.thegwpf.com/china-and-the-pause/ ... Chinese scientists say the hiatus in global warming is significant and real - and there are a lot more climate scientists in

William also sent in a couple of other links. At https://phys.org/print470892440.html ... it has been found that asteroids do not break up as easily as

William commented, mainstream doesn't mind catastrophism as long as it happened eons ago. See Elements volume 15:1 (February) which is a special issue devoted to

This post was sent in by Robert and must come under evolution rather than geology as it is speculative and from a Creationist attempt at

At https://phys.org/print471074197.html ... dinosaurs were thriving immediately prior to the asteroid strike that decimated them we are told. This is a big step change by

Robert sent in this link to https://phys.org/print471088133.html ... latest data sent back from Jupiter and Saturn show that these two gas giants have not played

A NASA 'Day in Review' article, 'Galactic Wind Provides Clue to Evolution of Galaxies' (from the jpl news room at www.jpl.nasa.gov ) is reproduced at