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On January 8th asteroid 2019AS5 flew past the Earth - just 8600km above the surface. Nine hours afterwards, the asteroid was discovered, by the Mount

At https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31356229  ... we learn that a huge canyon on Iceland was created by a few days of catastrophic flooding. The Jokulsargljufur canyon is 28

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech.article-6555999/ ... how climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse - which is derived from the US magazine

At https://phys.org/print465661093.html ... a study claims the Sahara desert swings between lush and arid every 20,000 years, a cynchronism with monsoon activity. This old chestnut

At https://astrobites.org/2019/01/02/growing-once-growing-twice-or-three-times ... an open access article at the arXiv portal has an interesting contribution. It suggests the universe has undergone more than one phases

This one comes courtesy of Anne-Marie de Grazia. At www.q-mag.org/neolithic-avant-garde-village-in-israel-drowned-by-tsunami... ... we are told that around 8000BC sea levels rose enought to re-establish a link

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6546689/Humans-NOT-rats-blame-sp... ... where we learn that research by Oslo University into an outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow back in

The flyby by New Horizons, zooming past Ultima Thule, has got a lot of people excited, and on the same day we have the Chinese

At https://www.electricuniverseuk.eu/videos/ ... your chance to view a couple of videos on the SAFIRE project. You can also buy or rent videos of all the

William sent in the links. Go to https://eos.org/article/huge-global-tsunami-followed-dinosaur-killing-as... ... huge global tsunami followed the dinosaur killing asteroid impact - with waves up to 1500m high.

At http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/24/the-discovery-of-tree-stumps-under-gl... ... this is a really important discovery in Russia - the discovery of tree stumps dating back between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago,

At https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1236 ... Nick Ridley on nuclear fusion, a favourite subject of Tony Haynes. We miss you Tony - and as he was fond of

At https://phys.org/print464518768.html ... flying reptiles, such as the klobiodon, once littered the skies of what is now the UK, it is thought, after their fossilised

The full article on the impact crater found beneath a glacier in NW Greenland is now available - at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173 See also https://cosmictusk.com/10206-2/

At http://spaceweather.com (22nd December 2018) as NASAs spacecraft New Horizons approaches Ultima Thule - flying past it on New Year;s Day, a mystery has developed.

At https://phys.org/print464621303.html ... a big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided according to Durham University computer simulation. Uranus is a very big planet so we

At https://phys.org/print464581407.html ... we have one of those alarmist doom and despondency stories based on the discovery that in the last interglacial period the West

At https://phys.org/print464353666.html ... fossils now indicate flowering plants originated 50m million years earler that thought by consensus science - back in the Early Jurassic era.

Interesting story sent in by Gary at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6509427/Giant-dust-particles-Sah... ... large dust particles with an origin in the Sahara desert have been found in the Caribbean,

Robert also sent in a link to https://phys.org/print464237850.html ... and asks, do tornadoes form in a process similar to lightning. That is, a downward propagating