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At https://phys.org/print467607042.html ... fusion has just had a boost. Researchers at the US Dept of Energy (Princetown Plasma Research Laboratory) and the University of Washington,

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/earths-oldest-known-rock-found-211500968.html ... Earth's oldest known rock has been found - on the Moon. The story is also at https://phys.org/print467624943.html

At https://www.sott.net/article/405655-Earthquakes-make-gold-veins-in-an-in... ... earthquakes make veins of gold in an instant. Pressure changes can cause precious metals to form when the crust moves. Geologists have

The Daily Telegraph of 26th January (2019) had a piece by Henry Balkin on Neanderthal spear throwing prowess. As the science correspondent he was citing

At https://phys.org/print467538949.html ... around 56 million years ago (give or take the odd day) global temperatures spiked. In the UK this coincided with a massive

At http://spaceweather.com (22nd January 2019) ... a meteoroid was seen to strike the Moon during the recent lunar eclipse (see the video). Meteoriods hit the

At https://phys.org/print467441193.html ... the light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach

At http://notrickszone.com/2019/01/24/atmospheric-physicists-a-human-signat... ... Greek atmospheric physicists have cast doubt on climate change hysteria in a step by step dissection of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.

At https://phys.org/print467383932.html ... a new book, 'Revealing Greater Cahokia, North America's First Native City' which says it had a population between 10 and 30,000 between

At https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/01/12/fire-and-feces-may-... ... it would seem genetics is out of sync with archaeology according to Jennifer Raff. The early peopling of the Americas is elusive

At https://phys.org/print467538914.html ... some 20 years or so ago an experiment at the Gran Sosso National Laboratory in Italy led to the publication of data

This is not really a climate change story but a geological one. One subject beloved of alarmists is sea level rise - coasts will be

Young is a bit open to interpretation here, as young in the eyes of astronomers can be quite a long time ago. William sent in

Sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-asteroids-strike-earth-since-age-of-dino... ... and also https://phys.org/print266934601.html ... which is an interesting story in that since 290 million years ago asteroid strikes

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/afot-tau011419.php ... supermassive black holes are, well, super massive. They are thought to exist at the heart of all galaxies - but how do

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/13/what-are-the-implications-for-cli... ... an interesting point made by climate scientist Tim Ball - what are the implications from climate of recent north magnetic pole activity?.

At http://spaceweather.com (13th January 2019) ... the image below was taken in New Hampshire in the US - colourful lights above a snow covered landscape

A quarry near the Dutch town of Winterswijk has many fossils of marine reptiles - many of them with a surprising amount of bone material

At https://phys.org/print466333233.html ... trilobite fossils are common to all parts of the world, northern and southern hemispheres. They dominated the early seas.    ...   Trilobites

At https://phys.org/print466332404.html ... a Japanese research team has identified a giant streak structure amongst the clouds covering Venus. They aqlso modelled the origins of the