In an expanding universe, as postulated by mainstream cosmology, the farther away we look at galaxies, the further back in time we are also looking.

Therefore, we would expect to see galactic density increase with distance, since the volume of the early universe would have been smaller such that galaxies would have been more closely packed.  Astronomical observations appear to show relatively constant galactic density vs. distance, inconsistent with the concept of an expanding universe started from a Big Bang, but not inconsistent with one that has existed indefinitely in a steady state.

Whenever you see a headline like this, you know it will go along the lines of “did you know that petroleum stands for rock oil?” Yes you did, goes the reply of an overwhelming majority of readers.

For this reason, the list below is one which holds the reader in high esteem, as a dear colleague on the road to broaden our knowledge of the oil industry. So here we go…

Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections, scientists say.

They followed 125 long-distance cyclists, some now in their 80s, and found they had the immune systems of 20-year-olds. Prof Norman Lazarus, 82, of King’s College London, who took part in and co-authored the research, said: “If exercise was a pill, everyone would be taking it.

March 8, 2018 Durham, New Hampshire – In mid-February 2018, solar activity was as low as 2007 levels, which was one year before that solar minimum began. That’s why solar physicists now project that the Solar Cycle 24 minimum leading up to Solar Cycle 25 will begin a year from now in the spring of 2019.

Some solar physicists have even placed bets about whether low energy Solar Cycle 24 will keep extending into Solar Cycles 25 to 26 ending up in a Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715, when our Sun was blank without sunspots most of the time and coincided with a Little Ice Age.

Here’s a polar bear habitat update for early March: some folks are wringing their hands over the relative extent of ice this season but ice maps show that as far as polar bear habitat is concerned, conditions are not materially different this year from what they were in 2006 or 2017.

JUST two generations back, in the 1960s, mainstream Australian society shunned both unmarried pregnant women and also homosexuals. They were loathed, and it would have been considered reasonable for the local police to turn-a-blind eye should misfortune befall members of either group – should they be killed.

Abstract: The measurements of gravitational waves, γ- rays, X-rays, UV, blue light, and red light from collision of neutron stars on 17th August 2017 opened a subject of gravitational wave astronomy.

As these emissions are found similar to radioisotopes and solar emissions caused by 235uranium fission, fission is reported to be taking place during collision. Therefore, fission could be the source for gravitational waves (GW170817). Early arrival of blue light than red light is attributed to its high energy and signifies reliability of measurements.

A new study has, for the first time, cut a clear path through a nettlesome problem: accurately measuring a powerful effect on global sea level that lingers from the last ice age.

Just how quickly Earth’s deep, rocky mantle is rebounding from the heavy burden of ancient ice sheets and oceans remains somewhat uncertain. But this rebound effect, known as glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), is critical to properly understanding the causes of sea level change.

Breaking: In Australia, an effort to label all alternative (traditional, complementary) medicine products as “based on pseudoscience” has failed.

Traditional remedies (much older than mainstream medicines) are defended as appropriate, and can include health claims.

The Crazz Files, a major defender of health freedom in Australia, reports: “In a major win, the Federal Government has ignored the Australian Greens and anti-complementary medicine activists like Doctor Ken Harvey…and passed a reform package that protects traditional medicine.”

If you read the New Zealand Herald, you’re (a) probably a Kiwi, and (b) building a bunker because you expect a Chinese space station to drop on your head.

Or you could be a Newsweek reader, in which case you’re digging bunkers because it’s going to drop on your head, not some Kiwi’s. If you’re in Western Australia, you’re probably hoping to issue China’s space agency with a littering fine (that’s happened before).

Literature on the galactic rotational anomaly seems to be divided between whether this implies spiral arm stability, necessitating constant angular rotation speed, or something else, namely constant tangential rotational speed (as rotation curves are often shown).

The latter, as shown here, would “unwind” the spiral arms over time, so mainstream physics postuiates “density waves” as an explanation for galactic spiral arm stability.  This paper hypothesizes that, if exhibiting constant tangential rotational speed so as to imply spiral arm unwinding (unless one accepts the density wave theory), possibly an optical illusion is at play.

Tropical storms have plagued humans since the start. Today we will shed some light on the activity pattern of the Pacific region.

Toomey et al. 2016 examined tropical storm activity in the South Pacific for the past 3000 years. Conclusion: During the period from 2600 to 1500 years B.P., storms were at their worst.