Major Sci News Blog

[Lloyd]

4458
(See recent Tech news at http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=23835.msg299390#msg299390)

Extinguishing a fusion fire in a flash of light
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-extinguishing-fusion.html

Superconductivity in a Non-Superconductive Material
http://futurism.com/physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material

A New Type of Atomic Bond Has Been Discovered
http://futurism.com/a-new-type-of-atomic-bond-has-been-discovered

A rogue, supermassive black hole [or something] is streaking across the universe
https://www.sott.net/article/333284-A-rogue-supermassive-black-hole-is-streaking-across-the-universe

Massive lake discovered beneath inactive Bolivian volcano
https://www.sott.net/article/333387-Massive-lake-discovered-beneath-inactive-Bolivian-volcano

Exploring the Zone of Silence in Mexico
https://www.sott.net/article/333468-Exploring-the-Zone-of-Silence-in-Mexico

World's smallest magnifying glass makes it possible to see chemical bonds between atoms
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-world-smallest-magnifying-glass-chemical.html

For the first time, a certain type of solar wave was caught surfing from the sun’s surface up through the star’s atmosphere, lending insight into how the sun’s material moves and mixes
http://www.space.com/34594-solar-wave-tracked-through-sun-atmosphere.html

Study confirms that stellar novae are the main source of lithium in the universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-stellar-novae-main-source-lithium.html

The Tunguska Event Comet Will Light The Sky With Fireballs
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/11/the-tunguska-event-comet-will-light-the-sky-with-fireballs

What Is Dark Matter? Prime Candidate Gets Profiled [What, the electric force?]
http://www.space.com/34595-dark-matter-search-axion-mass.html

Close galactic encounter leaves ‘nearly naked’ supermassive black hole [OR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/1611021309%2032.htm

Mars’ ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-mars-ionosphere-crustal-magnetic-fields.html

Dark energy could force the universe to gradually unzip itself [from the crazy physics straitjacket?]
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230994-500-dark-energy-could-force-the-universe-to-gradually-unzip-itself

Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-meteorites-reveal-drought-mars.html

Recycling Space Junk for Missions to Mars
http://www.seeker.com/space-junk-debris-recycle-mars-exploration-satellites-2085063955.html

Solar physicists unlock easier way to observe peculiar particles that reveal the inner workings of the sun [If they're peculiar, they must mean something]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-solar-physicists-easier-peculiar-particles.html

Close to absolute zero, electrons exhibit their quantum nature
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-absolute-electrons-quantum-nature.html

How was the Great Pyramid Built? These ‘Notches’ Where Its Faces Meet May Be Evidence for an Internal Ramp
http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2016/11/How-was-the-Great-Pyramid-Built-These-Notches-Where-Its-Faces-Meet-May-Be

Inwa: Magnificent Ancient Capital of Burmese Kings Left to Crumble
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/inwa-magnificent-ancient-capital-burmese-kings-left-crumble-006946

Mayan Grolier Codex ruled genuine
https://theconversation.com/grolier-codex-ruled-genuine-what-the-oldest-manuscript-to-survive-spanish-conquest-reveals-67941

Researchers discover UGC 3672 galaxy to be an unusual merging triplet of gas-rich dwarf galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-ugc-galaxy-unusual-merging-triplet.html

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is much younger than previously thought [& younger than still thought]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-comet-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko-younger-previously-thought.html

Impostor planet exposed by astronomers
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-impostor-planet-exposed-astronomers.html

Markarian 1018: Starvation diet for [imaginary] black hole dims brilliant galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-markarian-starvation-diet-black-hole.html

Space telescopes pinpoint elusive brown dwarf
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-space-telescopes-elusive-brown-dwarf.html

Researchers use novel analysis technique to help solve ill-fated Mars Lander Beagle 2 mystery
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-analysis-technique-beagle-mystery.html

Cosmic whistle, fast radio burst, packs a surprisingly energetic punch, rivaling supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-cosmic-surprisingly-energetic.html

A hydrogen-rich, passive galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-hydrogen-rich-passive-galaxy.html

Black hole [they mean galactic] jets can influence star formation in galaxies by dispersing and heating interstellar gas
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-black-hole-jets-star-formation.html

Southern hemisphere recovered quicker from devastating asteroid strike [in 4 million years where years = hours]
https://www.sott.net/article/333638-Southern-hemisphere-recovered-quicker-from-devastating-asteroid-strike

Physicists are 'afraid' of mathematics [surprise]
https://www.sott.net/article/333772-Physicists-are-afraid-of-mathematics

[Lloyd]

4622
(See tech news updates here: http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=23835.msg299390#msg299390)

Separate Astronomy Sense from Nonsense
https://voat.co/v/astronomy/1423619

What Triggered Tsunamis that Demolished Minoan Civilization? Thera pyroclastic flows
http://www.livescience.com/56791-santorini-tsunamis-caused-by-volcanic-flow.html

Mars’ Mega-Drought Revealed in Meteorite Rust
http://www.seeker.com/mars-meteorite-water-opportunity-rover-habitability-astrobiology-2089821823.html

New Theory of Gravity Does Away With Need for Dark Matter [next chuck gravity too]
http://www.universetoday.com/131901/new-theory-of-gravity-does-away-with-need-for-dark-matter

Saturn’s Rings Could Have Formed when Dinosaurs Walked the Earth [thousands not millions of years ago]
http://www.sci-news.com/space/saturns-rings-formed-dinosaurs-walked-earth-04331.html

Light from Ancient Quasars [sort of] Confirm the Laws of Physics Constant Throughout the Cosmos
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/light-from-ancient-quasars-shows-that-the-laws-of-physics-are-universal.html

‘Roundest known space object’ identified
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38014613

High-speed electrons have been spotted outside Earth’s magnetic field, and NASA can’t explain it
http://www.sciencealert.com/particles-are-being-accelerated-to-near-light-speed-outside-earth-s-magnetic-field-and-nasa-can-t-explain-it

Dinosaur-killing asteroid turned planet Earth inside-out (old granite just a kilometre below surface)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2113216-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-turned-planet-earth-inside-out

Great valley found on Mercury
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-great-valley-mercury.html

Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic
http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-alien-life-will-be-robotic

9,000-[or 4,000-]Year-Old Cheddar Man Has Living Descendant Still Living in The Same Area of U.K.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/9000-year-old-cheddar-man-has-living-descendant-still-living-same-area-006961

New evidence found of human activity 1.4 million years ago at Caribbean island
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/11/new-evidence-found-of-human-activity-1-4-million-years-ago-at-the-site-of-barranco-leon-in-orce/113191

9,000-[or 4,000-]Year-Old Underwater Stone Age Settlement in Sweden found
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-uncover-9000-year-old-underwater-stone-age-settlement-007012

[Doubtful] Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/ancient-water-from-northern-ontario-mine-may-harbour-alien-life/article32540885

A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical [like 5,000 years ago]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/16/sunny-steppes-a-tiny-parrot-fossil-suggests-siberia-was-once-subtropical

Fossilized Dinos Are Bones Turned to Stone—But Sometimes, Part of the Original Dino Survives
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fossilized-dinos-are-bones-turned-stone-sometimes-part-original-dino-survives-180961042

Original Dinosaur Claw Sheath Proteins Preserved for 75 Million Years [make that 75 Hundred years]
https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/11/moyer-claw

This 6,000-year-old amulet is the first evidence of a technology still used by NASA today
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-uncovered-the-secret-origins-of-a-6-000-year-old-amulet

Do extremely reddened quasars extinguish star formation? [No. See [url]http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6031]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-extremely-reddened-quasars-extinguish-star.html

Astronomers detect a fast rotating group of stars in our galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-astronomers-fast-rotating-group-stars.html

Team discovers major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-team-major-supercluster-galaxies-hidden.html

Mathematician claims one in 500 chance of extinction next year
https://www.sott.net/article/334266-Mathematician-claims-one-in-500-chance-of-extinction-next-year

[Lloyd]

4785
Twisted light sends a message over a record distance of 143 km
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112928-twisted-light-beams-a-greeting-over-a-record-distance-of-143-km

Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112537-smallest-sliver-of-time-yet-measured-sees-electrons-fleeing-atom

DNA Sequencing Startup Wants to Pay You For Your Genetic Data
http://futurism.com/a-new-dna-sequencing-startup-wants-to-pay-you-for-your-genetic-data

Global freezing: 15-year ice age predicted to hit in only 4 years as sun prepares to 'hibernate'
https://www.sott.net/article/333965-Global-freezing-15-year-ice-age-predicted-to-hit-in-only-4-years-as-sun-prepares-to-hibernate

New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/22/physicists_super%20conductivity_state

Lake of frozen water the size of New Mexico found on Mars
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/22/nasa_finds_ice_u%20nder_martian_surface

Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231014-700-deepest-water-found-1000km-down-a-third-of-way-to-earths-core

Bright radio bursts probe universe’s hidden matter: Brightest FRB (Fast radio bursts) to date observed (originating outside our galaxy)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/1611171448%2042.htm

How Bad is the Radiation on Mars?
http://www.universetoday.com/14979/mars-radiation1

First carbon dioxide ice seen on a comet, i.e. on Rosetta’s comet
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-icy-rosetta-comet.html

UK ‘space junk’ project highlights threat to missions
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-uk-space-junk-highlights-threat.html

A dash of hydrogen and methane could have kept Mars warm [Greenhouse gas theory is false; Mars was warm because it was close to Saturn]
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2113541-a-dash-of-hydrogen-and-methane-could-have-kept-mars-warm

Some Sungrazing Comets May Be Different Beasts [asteroids, but they're not different]
http://www.seeker.com/comets-asteroids-astronomy-soho-sun-sungrazers-ison-solar-system-2102960028.html

‘Artificial gravity’ device could be key to astronaut health on Mars mission
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/25/artifici%20al-gravity-device-could-be-key-to-astronaut-health-on-mars-mission

Opaline silica could give evidence to past life on Mars
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/11/possible-microbes-on-mars

Archeologists Have a Huge New Stonehenge to Figure Out in Kazakhstan
http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/archeologists-have-a-huge-new-stonehenge-to-figure-out

Important new sites found near Stonehenge
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/11/archaeological-team-making-new-discoveries-that-rewrite-stonehenge-landscape/113332

Oldest alphabet inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites was early form of Hebrew: Israelites in Egypt transformed hieroglyphics into Hebrew more than 3,800 years ago [That dating is probably excessive]
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-alphabet-identified-hebrew

Ancient Inscriptions Show Life Once Flourished in Jordan’s ‘Black Desert’
http://www.livescience.com/56944-ancient-inscriptions-found-in-black-desert.html

Glassmaking may have begun in Egypt, not Mesopotamia
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glassmaking-may-have-begun-egypt-not-mesopotamia

Ancient Egyptian Astronomical Dish predates Greek Astronomy
http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2016/11/Does-Ancient-Egyptian-Dish-Demolish-Everything-We-Know-about-the-Origins

Egypt unearths 7,000-year-old [probably 5,000] lost city
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/23/egypt-unearths-lost-city-first-dynasty-sohag-province

Sea levels were much lower during the last [and only] Ice Age [4,200 years ago]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-dino-killing-crater-clues-ice-age.html

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Made Earth’s Surface Act Like Liquid
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503013290/scientists-say-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-made-earths-surface-act-like-liquid
- Charles Chandler discusses earthquake waves at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9981.

Antarctic explorers help make discovery—100 years after their epic adventures [contradicting global warming]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-antarctic-explorers-discovery100-years-epic.html

130-Million-Year Old Proteins Still Present in Dinosaur-Age Fossil [except it's really only 5,000 y.o.]
http://www.livescience.com/56974-ancient-bird-cells-survive-in-fossil.html

[Bad speculation about] Forming stars in the early universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-stars-early-universe.html

Astronomers use light from X-ray source to study nearby stellar cloud
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-astronomers-x-ray-source-nearby-stellar.html

Record-breaking faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-record-breaking-faint-satellite-galaxy-milky.html

Spiral galaxy NGC 5523 could be an isolated product of soft galaxy mergers, study suggests
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-spiral-galaxy-ngc-isolated-product.html
- Charles Chandler explains galactic mergers at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5941.

New family of stars discovered in Milky Way core shed new light on galaxy's formation
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-family-stars-milky-galaxy-formation.html

Cassini prepares for 'ring-grazing orbits' around Saturn
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-cassini-ring-grazing-orbits.html

Researchers develop method for reading the history and 'family trees' of cells
https://www.sott.net/article/334626-Researchers-develop-method-for-reading-the-history-and-family-trees-of-cells

[Lloyd]

4885
THE CASE FOR REALITY and against the mainstream media
http://mileswmathis.com/real.pdf

Disrupting the world of science publishing
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/27/disrupting-the-world-of-science-publishing

Why is the surface of ice wet?
https://www.sott.net/article/334978-Why-is-the-surface-of-ice-wet

NASA Scientist Claims Space Mining is Possible With Today’s Tech
https://futurism.com/report-claims-space-mining-is-possible-within-a-few-decades

Moon-dust shows moon may have had water from the start
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114304-moon-dust-cake-mix-shows-moon-may-have-had-water-from-the-start

Brazil to Launch Nanosatellite to the Moon
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201612011048062275-brazil-nanosatellite-moon

Space’s Trash Collector? A Japanese Entrepreneur Wants the Job
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/science/space-junk-astroscale.html?_r=0

The ‘dead sun’: Stunning Nasa video reveals barren solar surface with lowest level of activity since 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3980462/The-dead-sun-Stunning-Nasa-image-reveals-barren-solar-surface-lowest-level-activity-2011.html

Indus Civilization Farmers Cultivated Rice Over 4,000 Years Ago, Archaeological Evidence Suggests
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/indus-civilization-rice-04400.html

Neandertals: More Advanced Than Previously Assumed – Prehistoric humans actively adapted their survival strategies [Note: Since no sedimentary rock strata likely existed before the Great Flood less than 5,000 years ago, no fossils are likely older than that, including Neanderthals]
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/11/neandertals-more-advanced-than-previously-assumed-prehistoric-humans-actively-adapted-their-survival-strategies/113472

Clovis Culture's Mammoth-Sized Mystery In Michigan [again less than 5,000 years ago]
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/11/mankinds-mammoth-sized-mystery-in-michigan

9,000?-year-old settlement found submerged under the sea off Sweden
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3935900/The-Stone-Age-Atlantis-Stunning-video-reveals-9-000-year-old-settlement-submerged-sea-Sweden.html

6,000? years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161130141053.h%20tm

Ice Age hunters destroyed forests throughout Europe
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/12/ice-age-hunters-destroyed-forests-throughout-europe/113513

Analysis of Iron Age ceramics suggests complex pattern of Eastern Mediterranean trade
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-analysis-iron-age-ceramics-complex.html

Violent collision of massive supernova with surrounding gas powers superluminous supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-violent-collision-massive-supernova-gas.html

Researchers propose low-mass supernova triggered formation of solar system
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-low-mass-supernova-triggered-formation-solar.html
-See Charles' Version here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6031

Data from ISS Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer suggests possibility of unknown source of positrons
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-iss-alpha-magnetic-spectrometer-possibility.html

Mystery of ultra-diffuse faint galaxies solved
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-mystery-ultra-diffuse-faint-galaxies.html

New observations confirm long-standing theory that stars are copious producers of heavy elements
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-long-standing-theory-stars-copious-heavy.html

NGC 4696 elliptical galaxy a beautiful cosmic oddity
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-tangled-threads-cosmic-oddity.html

Climate cycles may explain how running water carved Mars' surface features [More likely by impacts & rifting]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-climate-mars-surface-features.html

Embryonic cluster galaxy immersed in giant cloud of cold gas
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-embryonic-cluster-galaxy-immersed-giant.html

Superconducting bismuth is real, and it's forcing us to rethink the nature of superconductivity
https://www.sott.net/article/335406-Superconducting-bismuth-is-real-and-its-forcing-us-to-rethink-the-nature-of-superconductivity

Study: Tornado outbreaks are increasing -but scientists don't understand why
https://www.sott.net/article/335412-Study-Tornado-outbreaks-are-increasing-but-scientists-dont-understand-why

Charles' Comments on Sophist Big Bang Theory
http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=7971
http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=15200
http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=11991
http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=13120

[Lloyd]

5089
King Tut Was Eastern European, According to the DNA Results
http://humansarefree.com/2014/09/king-tut-was-eastern-european-according.html

First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous

Impossible crystal new to science found in meteorite
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/impossible-crystal-new-to-science-found-in-meteorite

Global warming scarred the surface of Mars: Deep canyons and valleys were formed by dramatic warming periods that lasted 10 million years [Their dating is BS; the canyons were formed by rifting after major impacts]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3992056/Global-warming-scarred-surface-Mars-Deep-canyons-valleys-formed-dramatic-warming-periods-lasted-10-MILLION-years.html

Nitrogen in Ancient Rocks A Sign of Early Life [5,000 years ago]
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/nitrogen-ancient-rocks-sign-early-life

‘Heat Bombs’ Warm Sun’s Outer Atmosphere [Nope]
http://www.space.com/34919-heat-bombs-warm-sun-corona.html

How to hide a ‘fifth force’ – and how to find one [The 5th force is ignorance]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2016/dec/04/how-to-hide-a-fifth-force-and-how-to-find-one

Giant radio flare of Cygnus X-3 detected by astronomers
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-giant-radio-flare-cygnus-x-.html

Ashurbanipal: The Oldest Surviving Royal Library in the World with Over 30,000 Clay Tablets
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/ashurbanipal-oldest-surviving-royal-library-world-over-30000-clay-tablets-007127

Researchers may have found first polluted river from before Bronze Age
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-polluted-river-bronze-age.html

Texas Archaeologist Cracks the Code of a 4,500-Year-Old Mural
https://www.texasobserver.org/if-these-walls-could-talk

Neolithic Syrians were first to domesticate cereals [bad dating]
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/12/neolithic-syrians-were-first-to-domesticate-cereals/113557

Mexico Is Hiding The World’s Largest Pyramid
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/mexico-is-hiding-the-world-s-largest-pyramid.html

Divers Discover Mysterious “Swedish Atlantis” In Baltic Sea
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/12/divers-discover-mysterious-swedish-atlantis-in-baltic-sea

Development of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal rock art [Don't count on it]
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/12/development-of-new-techniques-makes-it-possible-to-date-australian-aboriginal-rock-art

Greenland once lost nearly all its ice — and could again [If so it had to be in the last 5,000 years]
http://www.nature.com/news/greenland-once-lost-nearly-all-its-ice-and-could-again-1.21098

Face of Man Who Lived [way less than] 9,500 Years Ago in the Biblical City of Jericho Brought Back to Life
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/face-man-who-lived-9500-years-ago-biblical-city-jericho-brought-back-life-021105

Colliding galaxy clusters
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-colliding-galaxy-clusters.html

Second-generation stars identified, giving clues about their predecessors [?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-second-generation-stars-clues-predecessors.html

Saturn's bulging core implies moons younger than thought
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-saturn-bulging-core-implies-moons.html

Amateur astronomer helps uncover secrets of unique pulsar binary system
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-amateur-astronomer-uncover-secrets-unique.html

Distant galaxy churning out stars at remarkable rate
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-distant-galaxy-churning-stars-remarkable.html

SOFIA sees super-heated gas streams churning up possible storm of new stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-sofia-super-heated-gas-streams-churning.html

Research offers clues about the timing of Jupiter's formation [?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-clues-jupiter-formation.html

Perhaps lightning powers the wind [Yup]
https://www.sott.net/article/335996-Perhaps-lightning-powers-the-wind

Hot hydrogen atoms in upper layer of Earth's atmosphere discovered
https://www.sott.net/article/336167-Hot-hydrogen-atoms-in-upper-layer-of-Earths-atmosphere-discovered-by-researchers

One of the rarest crystals on Earth has been found in a Russian meteorite
https://www.sott.net/article/336337-One-of-the-rarest-crystals-on-Earth-has-been-found-in-a-Russian-meteorite

[Lloyd]

5195
Randall Carlson geology channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4wP5oo0WDLweCHQ1dJ8pvw

Ice Dam Problems: Missoula lake was supposedly 2100 feet deep at the ice dam, but modern lakes break through ice dams less than 200 feet high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otb6NJknIh8

Catastrophe 5,000 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEAyTaXMzxg

Ice age from cosmic dusting; 500 impacts in last 10,000 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsHSnfv1_vs

Carbonate caps on guyots and seamounts of western Pacific Ocean are 3,000 to 5,250 feet thick, lie over basalt lava, may be remnants of a former carbonate platform that was easily eroded by wave action during a cataclysm, & sediments transported far east to the Grand Canyon area
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3134&p=116204#p116131

Sedimentological Interpretation of the Tonto Group Stratigraphy (Grand Canyon Colorado River)
http://efficalis.com/sedimentology/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Lithulogy-and-Mineral-Resources-2004-Tonto-Group.pdf

Isotopic distribution of Calcium (lighter isotope in rainwater than in Seawater) suggests that it's synthesized in space (older calcium in seawater captured more Neutrons) Table 1
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne-Desiree_Schmitt/publication/240413971_The_source_of_calcium_in_wet_atmospheric_deposits_Ca-Sr_isotope_evidence/links/545ce7aa0cf2c1a63bfa5933.pdf

Light is turned to matter in the Thermosphere
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/nasas-ladee-spacecraft-finds-neon-in-lunar-atmosphere

Crater Orgins
http://www.setterfield.org/crater_origins/crater_origins.html

Lost Greek city dating back 2,500 years discovered
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/greece-lost-city-vlochos-university-of-gothenburg-bournemouth-a7471246.html

‘Dyson sphere’ star may be dimming because aliens are mining energy from its surface
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3993824/Dyson-sphere-star-dimming-ALIENS-mining-energy-surface-claim-scientists.html

One of the Largest Structures in the Known Universe
https://futurism.com/unveiling-the-cosmos-meet-one-of/-largest-structures-in-the-known-universe

Relationships between chemicals found on comets
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161203154535.htm

Team hunts tracer of ‘dinosaur killer’ asteroid
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38299804

Exoplanet shows clouds of ruby and sapphire
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2115792-first-exoplanet-weather-report-shows-clouds-of-ruby-and-sapphire

Astronomers have mapped gases in three dark rings surrounding young star 400 ly away, HD 163296
https://futurism.com/astronomers-may-have-witnessed-the-birth-of-planets-400-lightyears-away

Nonexistent Black hole ‘swallowed star’
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38292733

Meteorites tell us when Jupiter wandered around
http://www.futurity.org/meteorites-jupiter-migration-1315782-2

Sustainable nano-spacecraft
https://techxplore.com/news/2016-12-sustainable-nano-spacecraft-explored.html

Plumes Spotted on Europa Suggest Easy Access to Water
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plumes-spotted-on-europa-suggest-easy-access-to-water

Curiosity Finds Mars May Be Covered in Organic Materials
http://www.seeker.com/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-organics-exploration-red-planet-life-2145029441.html

Researchers Claim Disk Of Fairytale Dark Matter Will End Life On Earth
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/12/researchers-claim-disk-of-dark-matter-will-end-life-on-earth

First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter

Antarctica opportunity to study universe at terahertz radio frequencies
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-antarctic-site-window-cosmos.html

What Would Happen If a Giant Asteroid Struck the Ocean
http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-would-happen-if-a-giant-asteroid-struck-the-1790084340

How to Stop an Incoming Comet
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-stop-an-incoming-comet

A planet-eating ‘Death Star’
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161215152131.htm

Interaction between make-believe dark matter and ordinary matter in mini-spiral galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-unexpected-interaction-dark-ordinary-mini-spiral.html

The ibex code: deciphering Iran’s ancient rock art
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4021492/The-ibex-code-deciphering-Irans-ancient-rock-art.html

Ziggurat of Jiroft, Iran May be Largest and Oldest of its Kind in the World
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/buried-beneath-sand-ziggurat-jiroft-may-be-largest-and-oldest-its-kind-world-021108

Inscription About Ancient ‘Monkey Colony’ Survives ISIL Attacks
http://www.livescience.com/57161-ancient-inscriptions-survive-isil-attacks.html

Neanderthals liked Jersey, UK [dating is way wrong]
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/12/jersey-was-a-must-see-tourist-destination-for-neanderthals-for-over-100000-years/113638

River in Jordan Polluted by Copper 7,000 Years Ago
http://www.livescience.com/57168-earliest-polluted-river-found-jordan.html

Who made the ancient rock art?
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2017/article/who-made-the-ancient-rock-art

Ancient Mayan Superhighways Found in Guatemalan Rain Forest
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/12/ancient-mayan-superhighways-found-in-guatemalan-rain-forest

A ‘Stonehenge’ in the Amazon
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/world/americas/brazil-amazon-megaliths-stonehenge.html?_r=0

Rings around young star
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-young-star-planet-formation.html

Possible solution to why outer 5% of sun spins more slowly than interior
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-solution-long-standing-solar-mystery.html

Trivial Revolutions in understanding Earth's ionosphere
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-revolutions-ionosphere-earth-interface-space.html

Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-newly-stars-powerful-whirlwinds.html

Electrostatic dust transport reshapes surfaces of airless planetary bodies
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-lunar-surfaceelectrostatic-reshapes-surfaces-airless.html

Microlensing study suggests most common outer planets likely Neptune-mass
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-microlensing-common-outer-planets-neptune-mass.html

Mysterious dimming of young nearby star due to cloud of plasma or dusty accretion column
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-astronomers-mysterious-dimming-young-nearby.html

Scientists confirm Darwinism is broken
https://www.sott.net/article/336663-Scientists-confirm-Darwinism-is-broken

The ice is cracking in Antarctica: 'Pyramids' have been spotted, secret past emerging?
https://www.sott.net/article/336846-The-ice-is-cracking-in-Antarctica-Pyramids-have-been-spotted-secret-past-emerging

[Lloyd]

5422
Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116547-antimatter-atom-trapped-and-measured-with-a-laser-for-first-time

ISS astronaut snaps bizarre Sahara desert formation (Crater?)
https://www.sott.net/article/337155-Eye-of-Africa-ISS-astronaut-snaps-bizarre-Sahara-desert-formation

Scientists discover jet stream within earth's molten iron core using satellite data
https://www.sott.net/article/337194-Scientists-discover-jet-stream-within-earths-molten-iron-core-using-satellite-data

Earthquake faults retain a 'sense of memory'
https://www.sott.net/article/337310-Earthquake-faults-retain-a-sense-of-memory
- See Charles instead under Planets at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6031

Number of fantasy black holes expected to double in two years with new detection method
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-black-holes-years-method.html

Topological Insulators Could Reveal the Link Between Classical Physics and the Quantum Realm
https://futurism.com/this-material-could-reveal-the-link-between-classical-physics-and-the-quantum-realm

3 massive, perfectly aligned towers discovered on the surface of Mars
http://www.ancient-code.com/3-massive-perfectly-aligned-towers-discovered-surface-mars

Are Mars’ Dark Streaks Really Evidence of Liquid Water?
http://www.space.com/35071-mars-dark-streaks-liquid-water-debate.html

Sagittarius B2, a molecular cloud chemistry lab about 100 light years wide near the centre of our galaxy
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116610-giant-ball-of-gas-is-a-totally-stinky-galactic-chemistry-lab

China Trumps NASA With Working “StarTrek” EM Propulsion Drive
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/12/china-trumps-nasa-with-working-startrek-em-propulsion-drive-testing-now-aboard-the-tiangong-2-space-.html

A Japanese Startup Will Try to Land on the Moon Next Year
http://gizmodo.com/a-japanese-startup-will-try-to-land-on-the-moon-next-ye-1790358061

Planet Corpse Debris Found Scattered Over ‘Death Star’
http://www.seeker.com/death-star-kills-planet-astronomy-lithium-solar-system-2156406181.html

More fast radio bursts detected from same location
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/more-fast-radio-bursts-detected-same-location
- Bursts are from star formation: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6031

Antimatter Emits Same Light As Regular Matter
http://www.livescience.com/57270-antimatter-emits-same-light-as-matter.html

What Happened to Turkey’s Ancient Utopia?
http://discovermagazine.com/2016/sept/10-paradise-lost

Underwater Stone Age Baltic Sea Site Was Fisherman’s Paradise
http://www.livescience.com/57048-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped.html

Archaeologists Find Compelling Evidence for New Pharaonic Tombs in Egypt
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/pharaonic-tombs-qubbet-el-hawa-aswan-egypt-04477.html

Data from GRAIL spacecraft suggest moon may have large lava tubes
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-grail-spacecraft-moon-large-lava.html

No trace of dark matter in gamma-ray background [and is the background local?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-dark-gamma-ray-background.html

Pan-STARRS releases catalogue of 3 billion astronomical sources
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-pan-starrs-catalogue-billion-astronomical-sources.html

Famous red star Betelgeuse is spinning faster than expected; may have swallowed a companion 100,000 years ago [but if it's much smaller and closer than expected, then it's not spinning faster than expected]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-famous-red-star-betelgeuse-faster.html

Searching a sea of 'noise' to find exoplanets—using only data as a guide
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-sea-noise-exoplanetsusing.html

VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-vla-alma-team-birthplaces-current.html

Small troughs growing on Mars may become 'spiders'
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-small-troughs-mars-spiders.html

First light for band 5 at ALMA radio telescope
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-band-alma.html

Astronomers find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-astronomers-supercluster-galaxies-milky.html

Astronomers observe rise and fall of the dust shell of nova V339 Delphini
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-astronomers-fall-shell-nova-v339.html

Mystery of 'alien megastructure' star still baffles astronomers
https://www.sott.net/article/337385-Mystery-of-alien-megastructure-star-still-baffles-astronomers

Incoming star Gliese 710 could spawn swarms of comets when it passes our Sun
https://www.sott.net/article/337525-Incoming-star-Gliese-710-could-spawn-swarms-of-comets-when-it-passes-our-Sun

Christmas Solar Storm Threatens Earth's Electrical Infrastructure
https://www.sott.net/article/337549-Christmas-Solar-Storm-Threatens-Earths-Electrical-Infrastructure

Stunning new photos of isolated Brazilian tribe yield surprises
https://www.sott.net/article/337694-Stunning-new-photos-of-isolated-Brazilian-tribe-yield-surprises

Earth Bombarded by Mysterious Galactic High Energy Waves: An Increased Risk of Coming Earthquakes?
https://www.sott.net/article/337704-Earth-Bombarded-by-Mysterious-Galactic-High-Energy-Waves-An-Increased-Risk-of-Coming-Earthquakes

[Lloyd]

5526
Magnetic-Field 'Avalanches' May Explain 'Alien Megastructure' Star
http://www.space.com/35165-alien-megastructure-star-dims-from-magnetic-avalanches.html

Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/quantum-leap-researchers-send-information-using-a-single-particle-of-light

Mysterious Sonic Booms Are Being Heard on the Moon
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/12/mysterious-sonic-booms-are-being-heard-on-the-moon

“Hidden Mass” of the Universe Has Decreased Since Big Bang –“May Still Be Disintegrating” [Dark matter decreased from non-existent to doubly non-existent]
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/12/hidden-mass-of-the-universe-has-decreased-since-big-bang-may-still-be-disintegrating.html

The Edge of Physics: Do Gravitons Really Exist? [only mentally]
https://futurism.com/the-edge-of-physics-do-gravitons-really-exist

This Is Our Future on the Red Planet
https://futurism.com/becoming-martian-this-is-our-future-on-the-red-planet

Earth’s Surprise Neighbor Hints at Exoplanet Abundance
http://discovermagazine.com/2017/janfeb/2-earths-surprise-neighbor-hints-at-exoplanet-abundance

NASA’s Europa Lander May Drill to Find Pristine Samples on Icy Moon
http://www.space.com/35136-jupiter-moon-europa-life-hunt-drill.html

Weird Clouds Linger on Saturn’s Moon Titan
http://www.space.com/35152-mysterious-clouds-on-saturn-moon-titan.html

Compelling evidence for future tomb discoveries at Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2016/compelling-evidence-for-future-tomb-discoveries-at-qubbet-el-hawa-in-aswan

Scans unveil secrets of world’s oldest mummies [not really that old]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-scans-unveil-secrets-world-oldest.html

5,000-Year-Old Nativity Scene Found in Egypt
http://www.seeker.com/5000-year-old-nativity-scene-found-2161058490.html

Newly Discovered Prehistoric Bird Lived Near a Balmy North Pole
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/science/prehistoric-bird-arctic.html

How humans survived in the barren Atacama Desert 13,000 years ago [dating wrong again]
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/how-humans-survived-in-the-barren-atacama-desert-13000-years-ago

Two unique [under] 8 thousand years old figurines discovered by Polish archaeologists in Turkey
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,412457,two-unique-8-thousand-years-old-figurines-discovered-by-polish-archaeologists-in-turkey.html

Astronomers observe rise and fall of the dust shell of nova V339 Delphini
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-astronomers-fall-shell-nova-v339.html

Hubble gazes at a galactic megamaser
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-hubble-cosmic-megamaser.html

Pulsations detected in a hot, helium-atmosphere white dwarf
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-pulsations-hot-helium-atmosphere-white-dwarf.html
- Charles explains here http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5738 that white dwarfs are Natural Tokamaks, aka plasma ring stars, like pulsars [hint]

Astronomer's modeling show how low-mass supernova created our solar system
https://www.sott.net/article/338024-Astronomers-modeling-show-how-low-mass-supernova-created-our-solar-system

Satellite detects major gravitational [crater?] anomaly under Antarctica
https://www.sott.net/article/338080-Planetary-climate-change-Satellite-detects-major-gravitational-anomaly-under-Antarctica

Gravitational waves now offer 'a new window for astronomy' - the [Imaginary] 'Breakthrough of the year'
https://www.sott.net/article/338152-Gravitational-waves-now-offer-a-new-window-for-astronomy-the-Breakthrough-of-the-year

NASA's Near-Earth Object hunting mission spots a Comet and a body that's 'either a Comet or an asteroid'
https://www.sott.net/article/338191-NASAs-Near-Earth-Object-hunting-mission-spots-a-Comet-and-a-body-thats-either-a-Comet-or-an-asteroid

[Lloyd]

5649
TECH:
MIT makes compressed graphene sponge material that is 20 times less dense than steel but 10 times stronger, light as stryofoam but stronger than steel
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/01/mit-makes-compressed-graphene-sponge.html

Device harvests energy from your moving fingers
http://www.futurity.org/low-frequency-energy-1325172-2

Lie-detecting Robot Customs Agent
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-lie-detecting-kiosk-future.html

Solar power at 1¢/kWh by 2025 – “The promise of quasi-infinite and free energy is here”
https://electrek.co/2016/12/28/solar-power-at-1kwh-by-2025-the-promise-of-quasi-infinite-and-free-energy-is-here

Anti-surveillance clothing to hide wearers from facial recognition software
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04/anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface

Turning memory chips into processors
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-scientists-memory-chips-processors-tasks.html

Diamonds for GPS
https://www.sott.net/article/338503-Diamonds-that-know-where-they-are-could-make-GPS-satellites-redundant

SCIENCE:
Georgia Tech Climatologist Chooses 'Career Suicide' to Keep Her 'Scientific Integrity'
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/06/georgia-tech-climatologist-chooses-career-suicide-to-keep-her-scientific-integrity

New state of water discovered
https://www.sott.net/article/338621-New-state-of-water-discovered

Astronomers observe new double-ringed galaxy 'unlike anything seen before'
https://www.sott.net/article/338680-Astronomers-observe-new-double-ringed-galaxy-unlike-anything-seen-before

Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar
-https://www.sott.net/article/338685-FRBs-Source-found-for-most-mysterious-message-from-the-universe
-http://phys.org/news/2017-01-fast-radio-tied-distant-dwarf.html

India plans to launch over 100 satellites in single mission
https://www.sott.net/article/338698-India-plans-to-launch-over-100-satellites-in-single-mission

Huge planet hurling comets to their doom in nearby solar system
https://www.sott.net/article/338874-NASA-Huge-planet-hurling-comets-to-their-doom-in-nearby-solar-system

Spectacular collision of suns will create new star in night sky in 2022
https://www.sott.net/article/338913-Spectacular-collision-of-suns-will-create-new-star-in-night-sky-in-2022

Why Newton Believed a Comet Caused Noah’s Flood
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/comet-new-years-eve-newton-flood-bible-gravity-science

Sun May Be Tearing Asteroids Apart
http://www.space.com/35180-sun-shredding-asteroids-to-pieces.html

Proof of a 70-year-old hypothesis of magnetism
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-the-first-experimental-proof-of-a-70-year-old-hypothesis-of-magnetism

Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest

Mari, Syria Is The Oldest Known Planned City in the World
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/nearly-lost-pages-history-mari-oldest-known-planned-city-world-007293

How and when were the Americas populated? 16,000 BP? [The evidence found can't be over 5,000 years old, since the flood buried or removed surface material then]
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/first-americans-how-and-when-were-americas-populated

Humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau during the last ice age – 7,000 years earlier than previously thought [No, the plateau didn't exist till 4,400 BP]
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/handprints-show-humans-may-have-lived-tibetan-plateau-during-last-ice-age-1599336

This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441

3-D images reveal features of Martian polar ice caps
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-d-images-reveal-features-martian.html

New, extremely rare galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-extremely-rare-galaxy.html

Dozens of new ultra-diffuse galaxies discovered in Abell 2744
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-dozens-ultra-diffuse-galaxies-abell.html

Observations cast new light on cosmic microwave background [same old BS]
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-cosmic-microwave-background.html

The mystery of part-time pulsars
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-mystery-part-time-pulsars.html

The elements of life mapped across the Milky Way by SDSS/APOGEE
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-elements-life-milky-sdssapogee.html

The case of the 'missing link' neutron star [Pulsars are plasma, not neutrons]
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-case-link-neutron-star.html

Solar storms could spark soils [electrically] at moon's poles
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-nasa-solar-storms-soils-moon.html

[Lloyd]

5771
TECH:
Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331071-200-drones-inspired-by-insects-could-keep-flying-even-when-damaged

MIT scientists develop super-light, super-strong structure
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0108/MIT-scientists-develop-super-light-super-strong-structure

All Dutch Trains Now Run on 100% Wind Power
https://futurism.com/all-dutch-trains-now-run-on-100-wind-power

Summer solar heat for the winter
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170110121112.htm

88-year-old Saskatoon man makes cheap knitting machine
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/88-year-old-saskatoon-man-socks-1.3922778

Pentagon successfully tests micro-drone swarm
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-pentagon-successfully-micro-drone-swarm.html

Amazon's 'Mothership': Retailer Gets Patent for Mega-Drone
https://www.sott.net/article/339155-Amazons-Mothership-Retailer-Gets-Patent-for-Mega-Drone

Researchers use nature's weaving formula to engineer advanced functional materials
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-nature-formula-advanced-functional-materials.html

This three-mile-high skyscraper design is coated in self-cleaning material that eats smog
https://www.sott.net/article/339401-This-three-mile-high-skyscraper-design-is-coated-in-self-cleaning-material-that-eats-smog

SCIENCE:
Mars should have loads more water – so where has it all gone?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331070-800-mars-should-have-loads-more-water-so-where-has-it-all-gone

[Faulty?] Observations cast new light on cosmic microwave background
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-cosmic-microwave-background.html

[Pretend] Evidence of supermassive black holes found in neighbouring galaxies
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/07/evidence-of-supermassive-black-holes-found-in-neighbouring-galaxies

Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/colliding-stars-will-light-night-sky-2022

The night sky might have a new, bright ‘star’ in five years
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Spacebound/2017/0108/Why-the-night-sky-might-have-a-new-bright-star-in-five-years

Solar storms could spark soils at moon’s poles
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-nasa-solar-storms-soils-moon.html

Levitating Lunar dust particles can travel across vast regions of the moon via static electricity
http://www.space.com/35240-moon-dust-levitates-nasa-study.html

In a Few Billion Years Will Our Planet Still Be Around?
https://futurism.com/1-evergreen-the-sun-the-earth-and-a-few-billion-years-will-our-planet-still-be-around

The Milky Way’s Most Distant Stars May Be Stolen Goods
http://www.seeker.com/milky-way-galaxy-stolen-stars-astronomy-dwarf-sagittarius-2189058764.html

How Old Is the Moon? Scientists Say They Finally Know [but they obviously don't]
http://www.space.com/35291-moon-age-pinned-down.html

Many tiny moons came together to form our moon?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/many-tiny-moons-came-together-form-moon-simulations-suggest

An asteroid just flew by Earth about 50% the distance to the moon, and we barely saw it coming
http://www.businessinsider.com/asteroid-flyby-nearer-than-moon-2017-1

A star heading this way could knock millions of asteroids towards Earth
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-star-hurtling-this-way-could-knock-millions-of-asteroids-towards-earth

The Milky Way’s black hole [or else something real] is spewing out planet-size ‘spitballs’
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-milky-black-hole-spewing-planet-size.html

Black holes hide in our cosmic backyard [just like fairies]
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-black-holes-cosmic-backyard.html

Humans Are Made of Stardust a new survey of 150,000 stars shows
http://www.space.com/35276-humans-made-of-stardust-galaxy-life-elements.html

How a moon slows the decay of Pluto’s atmosphere
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-moon-pluto-atmosphere.html

NASA has discovered gigantic ice towers on Pluto, standing 500 metres tall
http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-has-discovered-gigantic-ice-towers-on-pluto-standing-500-metres-tall

Could Dark Streaks in Venus’ Clouds Be Microbial Life?
http://www.astrobio.net/venus/dark-streaks-venus-clouds-microbial-life

[Imaginary] Dark matter still missing [probably all disappeared into nonexistent black holes]
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-still-missing

Our Sun May Have Snatched Planet 9 From Outside the Solar System [not to mention the rest]
http://gizmodo.com/our-sun-may-have-snatched-planet-9-from-outside-the-sol-1791075905

Scientists close in on the true mass of the Milky Way
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-scientists-true-mass-milky.html

Outflowing gas in ultraluminous galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-outflowing-gas-ultraluminous-galaxies.html

Struggle to escape distant galaxies creates giant halos of scattered photons
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-struggle-distant-galaxies-giant-halos.html

Asymmetric structure in the supermassive "black hole" at the galaxy's center
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-asymmetric-supermassive-black-hole-galaxy.html

Astronomers discover molecular and atomic clouds associated with a superbubble in LMC [small galaxy near us]
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-astronomers-molecular-atomic-clouds-superbubble.html

What role do supermassive black holes play when galaxies merge? [Since they don't exist, maybe none]
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-role-supermassive-black-holes-galaxies.html

Hubble gazes into a "black hole" of puzzling lightness
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-hubble-black-hole-puzzling.html

Hubble Spies Exocomets Diving into Young Star
https://www.sott.net/article/339363-Hubble-Spies-Exocomets-Diving-into-Young-Star

The weakest solar cycle in a century
https://www.sott.net/image/s18/370255/full/solarcycle_strip2.png
https://www.sott.net/article/339435-Sunspots-vanish-space-weather-continues

Mystery object spotted in Cygnus A Galaxy
https://www.sott.net/article/339572-Mystery-object-spotted-in-Cygnus-A-Galaxy

Scientists have outlined an 8-page plan to fix what's wrong with science [Actually makes sense: free papers, replace peer review ...]
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-written-an-8-page-plan-to-fix-bad-science

Physicists able to 'squeeze' light to cool microscopic drum below quantum limit
https://www.sott.net/article/339626-Physicists-able-to-squeeze-light-to-cool-microscopic-drum-below-quantum-limit

New expedition to probe Mariana trench
https://www.sott.net/article/339623-New-expedition-to-probe-Mariana-trenchs-deepest-secrets

Scientists now warn of new Ice Age as temperatures plummet -80°F in Russia
https://www.sott.net/article/339176-Scientists-now-warn-of-new-Ice-Age-as-temperatures-plummet-80F-in-Russia

Ancient Italian Stonehenge accidentally discovered by group of friends
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ancient-italian-stonehenge-accidentally-discovered-by-friends-a7515651.html

2,300-Year-Old Sword Unearthed in China is Still Sharp
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/2300-year-old-sword-unearthed-in-china-is-still-sharp

Ancient city dating back more than 2,000 years found in China
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/ancient-city-dating-back-more-than-2-000-years-found-in-china/story-46bxJQwex73oynbicHfLfL.html

Ancient Maya developed super highways network more than 1,000 years ago
http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2017/01/ancient-maya-developed-super-highways-network-more-than-1000-years-ago

Scientists investigate what nearly destroyed the Great Barrier Reef 125,000 years ago [make that 5,000 years ago]
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0108/Scientists-investigate-what-nearly-destroyed-the-Great-Barrier-Reef-125-000-years-ago

Ancient human disturbances may skew understanding of Amazon and its impact
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-ancient-human-disturbances-skewer-amazon.html

Exploration of Stonehenge tunnel given green light
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/stonehenge-tunnel-given-green-light-nearly-30-years-delays

Dozens of Tombs and Mysterious Crocodile Skeleton Found in Egypt
http://www.seeker.com/dozens-of-tombs-and-mysterious-crocodile-remains-found-in-egypt-2189113744.html

Swedish archaeologists discover 12 ancient Egyptian cemeteries near Aswan
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-idUKKBN14V1CQ

3,400-year-old wooden box is linked to Pharaoh Amenhotep II
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4110292/Egyptian-treasure-riddle-cracked-160-years-Missing-fragments-reveal-3-400-year-old-wooden-box-linked-Pharaoh-Amenhotep-II.html

[Lloyd]

5931
Tech:
Robotics engineer is pioneering the use of robotics for first responders
https://futurism.com/2-more-than-human-scientist-is-building-animal-like-machines-to-save-lives

Faster recharging batteries possible
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-faster-recharging-batteries-insights.html

AI still a major concern despite scientific assurances
https://www.sott.net/article/340219-We-have-a-problem-AI-still-a-major-concern-despite-scientific-assurances

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Science:
NASA to explore space rock worth 10,000 quadrillion
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/579037/nasa-mission-mars-jupiter-psyche-expensive-space-rock-economy-quadrillion-dollars

Chinese 'hack-proof' quantum communication satellite put into service
https://www.sott.net/article/340117-Much-better-than-expected-Chinese-hack-proof-quantum-communication-satellite-put-into-service

Wet, green Sahara 5000 to 11,000 years ago
https://www.sott.net/article/340151-Wet-green-Sahara-5000-to-11000-years-ago

Ancient tree rings suggest sunspot cycles similar to the one observed in more modern times
https://www.sott.net/article/340235-Ancient-tree-rings-suggest-sunspot-cycles-similar-to-the-one-observed-in-more-modern-times

NASA image shows vast ‘hole’ spreading across the solar surface
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4111008/The-sun-ripping-apart-NASA-image-shows-vast-hole-spreading-solar-surface.html

Astronomers have spotted a massive ‘bulge’ in Venus’ atmosphere
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-massive-bulge-in-venus-atmosphere-could-be-the-largest-gravity-wave-ever-witnessed

Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118248-curiosity-finds-mars-rock-that-may-be-a-meteorite-made-from-iron

8,500(?)-year-old Silk Found in Chinese Tombs
http://www.newhistorian.com/8500-year-old-silk-found-chinese-tombs-oldest-evidence-ever/7859

4,000-year-old pottery and flint tools found near St Andrews could shed light on trade in Neolithic Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4102528/4-000-year-old-Neolithic-pottery-flint-tools-discovered-St-Andrews.html

Sumerians Looked to the Heavens as They Invented the System of Time
http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/sumerians-looked-heavens-they-invented-system-time-and-we-still-use-it-today-007341

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years [very doubtful]
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/01/aboriginal-australians-co-existed-with-the-megafauna-for-at-least-17000-years/113904

Stalagmites in dry corridor suggest Amazonia maintained forests during the last [and only] ice age
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-stalagmites-corridor-amazonia-forests-ice.html

Flesh-eating disease among ruins of ancient lost ‘City of the Monkey God’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/explorers-contract-flesh-eating-disease-honduras-rainforest-jungle-ruins-ancient-lost-city-monkey-a7523356.html

Megalodon Met Its Demise When Its Prey Went Extinct [in the Great Flood]
http://www.seeker.com/megalodon-met-its-demise-when-its-prey-went-extinct-2191495885.html

A universe of 2 trillion galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-universe-trillion-galaxies.html

Ammonia emission from the center of our galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-small-long-serving-satellite-ammonia-emission.html

Dimming of binary star
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-astrophysicists-dimming-binary-star.html

Galaxy murder mystery
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-galaxy-mystery.html

ALMA reveals sun in new light
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-alma-reveals-sun.html

A tale of two pulsars' tails
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-tale-pulsars-tails-plumes-geometry.html

Mars rover Curiosity examines possible mud cracks
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-mars-rover-curiosity-mud.html

A catalog of habitable zone exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-habitable-zone-exoplanets.html

Observations of Ceres indicate that asteroids might be camouflaged
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-ceres-asteroids-camouflaged.html

The evolution of massive galaxy clusters
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-evolution-massive-galaxy-clusters.html

[Lloyd]

6090
TECH:
Plans for world’s first ‘floating city’ unveiled: Radical designs could be built in the Pacific Ocean in 2019
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4127954/Plans-world-s-floating-city-unveiled.html

Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/return-of-incandescent-light-bulbs-as-mit-makes-them-more-effici

Paper that can survive Hell or high water
https://www.sott.net/article/340510-Chinese-scientists-develop-paper-that-can-survive-Hell-or-high-water-VIDEO

Scientists develop 'world's most powerful' laser
https://www.sott.net/article/340718-Scientists-develop-worlds-most-powerful-laser


SCIENCE:
Carolina Bays are shock liquefaction impact features from hypersonic ice boulders launched from glacial ice sheet by cosmic impact at Younger Dryas
https://www.sott.net/article/340456-Antonio-Zamora-in-Geomorphology-Carolina-Bays-are-shock-liquefaction-impact-features-from-hypersonic-ice-boulders-launched-from-glacial-ice-sheet-by-cosmic-impact-at-Younger-Dryas

Synthetic DNA paves way for creation of entirely new life forms
https://www.sott.net/article/340524-Synthetic-DNA-paves-way-for-creation-of-entirely-new-life-forms

New science says DNA begins as a quantum wave form
https://www.sott.net/article/340595-New-science-says-DNA-begins-as-a-quantum-wave-form

An asteroid is about to slip between Earth and the moon — the second near miss in 3 weeks
https://www.sott.net/article/340613-An-asteroid-is-about-to-slip-between-Earth-and-the-moon-the-second-near-miss-in-3-weeks

Mars 'Curiosity' encounters potential metal meteorite
https://www.sott.net/article/340938-Mars-Curiosity-encounters-potential-new-meteorite

Ice age [one-time] cycles linked to orbital periods and sea ice
https://www.sott.net/article/340992-Ice-age-cycles-linked-to-orbital-periods-and-sea-ice

Study relates Atlantic hurricane frequency to sunspot activity
https://www.sott.net/article/341052-Study-relates-Atlantic-hurricane-frequency-to-sunspot-activity

One of the brightest distant galaxies known discovered
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-brightest-distant-galaxies.html

Something hit an asteroid and broke it apart, sending chunks of rock falling to Earth as meteorites since before the time of the dinosaurs
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-big-picture-meteorites-giant-space-collision.html

Isotopic similarities seen in materials that formed Earth, moon
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-isotopic-similarities-materials-earth-moon.html

Similar-looking ridges on Mars have diverse origins
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-similar-looking-ridges-mars-diverse.html

Rapid gas flares discovered in white dwarf [ring] star for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-rapid-gas-flares-white-dwarf.html

Debating how to classify a beautiful galaxy, NGC 4861
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-star-birth-chance.html

Green Glow from Ancient Galaxies Surprises Scientists
http://www.space.com/35297-green-glow-from-ancient-galaxies-surprise-scientists.html

Milky Way galaxy lighter than previous estimates
http://www.space.com/35316-milky-way-mass-measurement-uses-old-technique.html

Something Silent But Deadly Is Killing Galaxies: ram-pressure [gas] stripping
http://gizmodo.com/something-silent-but-deadly-is-killing-galaxies-1791328049

Unusual Ancient Bits of Rock from Vesta & Friends
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/ancient-bits-of-rock-help-solve-an-asteroid-mystery.html

Exotic black holes caught turning into a superfluid
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118788-exotic-black-holes-caught-turning-into-a-superfluid

We Just Found New Evidence of Water on Mars
https://futurism.com/we-just-found-new-evidence-of-water-on-mars

The Great Wall of India: 80km ‘diwaal’ is an ancient mystery no one knew about
http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/a-mystery-in-middle-india-an-ancient-80-km-wall-no-one-knew-about/story-V5nn9bUMIhTUbfH5cbtiGO.html

ASU scientist finds advanced geometry no secret to prehistoric architects in US Southwest
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/asu-asf012317.php

[webolife]

Lloyd,
I know you spend a lot of time gathering these news bites from around the internet, which is possibly a great service to us all... but why do you suppose so much of it is going un-bitten? I occasionally tried to bite a few over the months you have been posting, but can I give you a few friendly suggestions:
1. A lot of this stuff is truly poor writing by non-science journalists. Several of the articles I've taken a gander at give no substantive evidence for their claims, and are just speculating on some second- or third-hand headline.
2. Most of these articles do not give source references, which means that any one wanting to comment on them must do a deep search themselves to find out WHO, WHAT, WHY, and "What did the primary researchers actually find, observe or measure?"
3. Avoid editorializing the headlines by inserting your own catastrophic philosophic disclaimers. Particularly avoid the use of dogmatic wording that flatly discounts a claim without giving an evidenciary basis. These are dishonest and unscientific practices worse than the writing of an article to spectacularize a claim without providing necessary background information, the practice of most of the article authors you reference.
4. Finally word: This is really a huge list of disinformation, making it nigh unto impossible for us readers to sort through the sheer volume of it all... I'm wondering if there is a better way to channel this "service"?

[Lloyd]

Gordon, there's nothing dishonest about the comments I add to some of the article titles. And the titles aren't supposed to be scientific. They're supposed to be interesting and explanatory. I post the titles so readers can get an idea of what scientific findings are being made or talked about. Often the titles are too vague, so I add info so readers know what it's really about. I usually don't read the articles myself, unless they're especially interesting, or just to see better what it's about. I add the links so readers can decide if they want to check out the story more.

I cull the article titles from Graham Hancock's site and Phys.org and SOTT.org (I think) and sometimes from Voat.co, a forum, etc. Since I do the work of finding and posting them, I think it's fine if I add my comments to some of the titles. I don't force readers to agree with me. They're free to comment in this thread. They can post their disagreements or ask questions etc. If a group of people meet in person to discuss science, would you criticize anyone who mentions the title of an article and throws in a personal comment? You seem to be obsessed with formality. I'm not, except when I write an article or paper myself.

I don't have time to read most articles to make sure they're well written. I figure it's valuable just reading the titles, or I improve the titles to make them more informative by themselves.

I'm always open to discussing how to improve things. If you have any ideas, feel free to mention them. I've started a number of threads on this forum over the years, suggesting that we discuss and work on improving science or some aspect of it etc, or having friendly debates. There've been a few results, esp. with CC, but not many so far. There seems to be a lot of progress with AI lately. Maybe we should pool some money to get some AI and program it to improve science for us.

[Lloyd]

6372
TECH:
A mathematician says he’s found a system that could stop tsunamis in their tracks
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-a-plan-to-stop-tsunamis-with-sound-waves

Cheap carbon ‘roses’ pull radioactivity from water
http://www.futurity.org/radioactivity-water-fukushima-omc-1342812-2

Genetically modified, bionic, dragonfly drones will help with pollination
https://futurism.com/genetically-modified-cyborg-dragonflies-are-bringing-black-mirror-to-life

Ultimate solar-powered water purifier
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-academics-ultimate-solar-powered-purifier.html

Heat from the Sun Can Keep Us All Cool
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-heat-from-the-sun-can-keep-us-all-cool1

Pedal power revival in China with bike-share apps
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-power-revival-china-bike-share-apps.html


SCIENCE:
Researchers confirm the existence of a 'lost continent' under Mauritius in Indian Ocean
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-lost-continent-mauritius.html

Young Age Creationism contribution to science
http://creation.com/why-young-age-creationism-is-good-for-science

Scientists have filmed a ‘sonic boom’ of light for the first time
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-filmed-a-sonic-boom-of-light-for-the-first-time

'Rotten Egg' death star: Hubble captures spectacular images of nebula's violent transformation
https://www.sott.net/article/341095-Rotten-Egg-death-star-Hubble-captures-spectacular-images-of-nebulas-violent-transformation

An extragalactic void is shoving our Milky Way galaxy from behind
https://www.sott.net/article/341169-An-extragalactic-void-is-shoving-our-Milky-Way-galaxy-from-behind

Solar winds might be carrying oxygen from Earth to the moon
https://www.sott.net/article/341440-Solar-winds-might-be-carrying-oxygen-from-Earth-to-the-moon

Earth's water may have originally been formed deep within its mantle
https://www.sott.net/article/341555-Study-Earths-water-may-have-originally-been-formed-deep-within-its-mantle

Radioisotope dating technique flawed suggest new study
https://www.sott.net/article/341623-Radioisotope-dating-technique-flawed-suggest-new-study

Cosmic dust that formed our planets traced to giant stars
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-cosmic-planets-giant-stars.html

Both push and pull drive our galaxy's race through space
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-galaxy-space.html

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovers the most extreme blazars yet
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-extreme.html

Stars in the halo of the Milky Way often travel in groups
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-stars-halo-milky-groups.html

Research finds evidence of 2 billion years of volcanic activity on Mars
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-evidence-billion-years-volcanic-mars.html

Experiments suggest red spot on Pluto may have come about from impact that formed Charon
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-red-pluto-impact-charon.html

Asteroid Triggered Freezing Darkness That Killed Dinos
http://www.space.com/35457-dinosaurs-killed-by-freezing-cold-darkness.html

Clingy Alien Planets May Fling Their Moons Out of Orbit
http://www.space.com/35460-clingy-alien-planets-may-lose-moons.html

Earth’s water must have arrived here earlier than we thought
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118993-earths-water-must-have-arrived-here-earlier-than-we-thought

James Cameron links find of bronze-age anchors to lost city of Atlantis
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/has-james-cameron-found-atlantis/news-story/ad7e5e9dcde35c0a8fc769dffef14670