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At www.bldgblog.com/2007/04/the-heliocentric-pantheon-an-interview-with-wal... ... this pieces was sent in by Brian, a long time SIS member. He is hoping to open discussion with other members of

An Israeli company has created water from plain air and is set to globally expand its business - see www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-company-creating-water-from-plain-air-... ... Watergen draws air from

At http://cosmictusk.com/plants-and-trees-in-hiawatha-crater/ ... we learn that the Hiawatha Crater recently found in NW Greenland, has organic carbon in the glacio fluvial sand seeping from the

The outer solar system is a fairly quiet place we are assured. Not a lot of meteors or craters on the likes of Pluto and

At https://eos.org/features/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-earth-blobs/ ... sent in by William, the subject being the hot mantle below the crust which appears to harbour two blobs the length of

At https://phys.org/print470023462.html ... the Japanese probe Hayabusa 2 has landed on the Ryuga asteroid and is in the process of collecting samples. The material is

At https://phys.org/print470041521.html ... geomagnetic activity in Earth's atmosphere with an origin in the same on the Sun. A plasma stream, the solar wind, is causing

Geological chronology is at the heart of a division in earth sciences - between those that favour an asteroid impact and those that, instead, blame

At https://phys.org/print469790260.html ... high energy x-ray bursts from low energy plasma is the  subject matter of this press release. We are told solar rays should

Robert  also sent in a link to https://www.icr.org/article/11240/ ... which claims fossils of Tyrannosaurus Rex have been found in the same geological sediments as sharks

At the Astrobytes blog (https://astrobites.org/2019/02/19/the-search-for-black-hole-teenagers/ ... we have a population of indeterminate black holes (low luminoscity) under discussion. Most galaxies seem to contain a super

Robert sent in several links. The first one is to www.everythingselectric.com/eie-100/ .... and concerns the large storms seen  erupting on the Sun recently, flinging material

One tends to think in terms of the study of electro-magnetic prominences on the face of the Sun as a very recent affair but this

Sent in by Gary. I didn't take much notice as I thought it was a run of the mill meteor in a tourist hotspot. Seems

At http://spaceweather.com (February 14th 2019) - big activity on the Sun in the form of a filament of plasma dancing along one of the edges,

More dinosaur tracks. This time in Queensland, Australia - see https://phys.org/print469353367.html ... it is described as a well travelled dinosaur trackway. A variety of dinosaur

William sent in this link to https://eos.org/articles/ancient-tsunami-tied-to-volcanic-flank-collapse... ... which concerns the Italian island of Stromboli. It is in fact a volcano and has been periodically

At https://phys.org/print469174991.html ... there are 35,000 megalithic constructs in Europe. A new study claims they were spread by a sea going culture that emerged in

At http://notrickszone.com/2019/02/12/comprehensive-study-glacier-melt-esti... ... geographers from FAU have investigated glaciers in South America in more detail that ever before, from tropical regions of Venezuela and Colombia

At https://phys.org/print469192703.html ... soft bodied species such as spiders aren't usually fossilised in rock like animals with bones and teeth. More often than not fossil