The 12.4 mile (20km) layer of rock sits underneath the ocean crust below Bermuda.
No structure this thick has ever been found before, according to the team – who say it could help to answer one of the biggest questions about the famous island.
Bermuda sits on a raised area of ocean crust known as an ‘oceanic swell’, which lifts it above the surrounding area.
These formations are typically associated with volcanic activity, but there is no evidence to show that a volcano is to blame for Bermuda’s strange geology.
There hasn’t been an eruption on the island for more than 31 million years, and any volcanic swelling should have subsided over that time.
The new discovery suggests the last eruption injected molten rock into the crust where it froze into a raft, lifting the island 500 metres (1,640 ft) out of the sea.
Researchers found a 12.4–mile–thick (20 km) layer of rock that sits underneath the ocean crust below Bermuda and lifts the island 500 metres (1,640 ft) out of the sea
This is a reasonable, even strong, indication that humanity’s ancient past is very different, more wonderful, dangerous and stranger than we had hitherto ever thought. ABN
The out of body part of this story is reasonable evidence that consciousness resides outside of the body and in some circumstances can be accessed as such.
Nowadays, philosophers and some physicists call that greater consciousness ‘mind at large’ or the ‘field of consciousness’ that underlies or inheres in all things.
Buddhists sometimes claim to have achieved awareness of that field of consciousness.
The Buddha is known as the Thus Come One and the Thus Gone One, meaning he came from that deep field of universal consciousness and went back into it when he achieved nirvana.
It’s a wonderful thing that medical science is seeing this side of sentient life and that the evidence for it has grown significantly in recent years. ABN
Over the past few months, I have spent several hundred hours building a live, physics-based monitoring system for Earth’s rotation, gravity field, magnetic field, and crustal activity. It uses only authoritative open data (IERS, GFZ, USGS, EONET, standard geomagnetic reconstructions).
Before I share more in a few weeks, I wanted to offer up a complete summary as it is now monitoring live and recording data. First, the system doesn’t assume any specific theory. It literally just watches, in physical units:
Paleo similarity: strongest match to documented excursion onsets (e.g. Laschamp)
Both D* J2 and D* SAI are in highly anomalous states
Historically, you do see large J2 spikes or individual anomalies by themselves (namely in the 70s, with return to nominal conditions throughout the 80s) but the system recovered. However, what you do not see in the modern data is what we see now: high J2 + high SAI residual + critical geomagnetic stress + critical crustal stress + excursion-like paleo match, all at the same time. In other words, we are no longer in a “quiet, stable dipole” state on this planet.
We are in an excursion-like, high-stress phase of the Earth system, as far as rotation, geomagnetism, and crustal response are concerned.
There is absolutely no refuting this.
This does not mean I can tell you “what day something happens,” or guarantee any particular outcome with really any level of confidence. In my opinion though, only two broad paths exist at this point (and the paleo record does show both):
The system partially recovers (indicators relax, timelines stretch)
The system continues to deteriorate and commits to an excursion-class transition
Which path we’re on depends on how these indicators move from here.
If current deterioration persists or accelerates, the odds of a major reorganization in the coming years rise significantly. If key indicators stabilize or reverse (J2, SAI residual, field decay, pole drift, SAA behavior, crustal stress), risk stretches or falls.
However, based on the data, we entered an anomalous state roughly 50 years ago but underwent said recovery. Such a precursor-recovery-crisis pattern is documented in excursion literature (e.g. Laschamp). Early instabilities (like 1970s-80s D*_J2 spikes) probe the system but recover when the geomagnetic infrastructure is intact. Unfortunately,
50 years ago we did not have convergent, rapidly accelerating anomalous conditions across Earth rotation, geomagnetism, and crustal destabilization over known LLVPs as we do today. And we have already exceeded the peak instability of D*_J2 from back then.
Nevertheless, the point of GEOSYNC is to make that evolution measurable, not speculative.
With all of the above in mind, people have a right to know the present state:
Multi-σ departures from baseline in rotation/gravity
Synchronized anomalies in field behavior and crustal activity
A combined configuration that, in the modern record, has no prior analogue and looks most like known excursion phases in the paleo record
In the coming weeks, I will release:
The complete GEOSYNC v1.0 findings and outputs
Full indicator definitions
Comprehensive data library
Backtests showing when these metrics did not fire together
Live dashboards / logs so anyone can independently verify, critique, or falsify the framework using the same public data (possibly early 2026)
NOTE: Please, do not read too far into the similarity calibration to Laschamp. This is most likely because there is simply substantially more data and literature around Laschamp then just about any other excursion we have identified. More to come.
U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tank units have conducted intensively training at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Poland, with crews manoeuvring at least one of the vehicles through a water obstacle and mud fields.
Tanks were delivered from multiple locations across Poland to take part in the Forward Land Forces expansion exercise, with the Polish Armed Forces assisting in the coordination of rail transfers and managing of the training site.
Exercises were designed to rehearse mobility, sustainment, and positioning of heavy armour in Eastern Europe, simulated cold, mud-heavy terrain, and unpredictable temperature changes, which are common in the autumn and winter, and which can make it particularly difficult to operate tanks.
U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams Tank During Exercises in Poland
Poland is one of just three foreign countries to host permanent foreign deployments of U.S. Army tank units, alongside Germany and South Korea, with the M1A2 SEPv2 variant being stationed there.
The Abrams is one of two tank types alongside the Russian T-80 to use a gas turbine engine, which provides higher mobility particularly in muddy terrain.
Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters (1,000 sq ft), dense enough to resemble a living curtain, home to an estimated 110,000 spiders.
An international team of European researchers, including scientists from the Czech Speleological Society, came across it while undertaking a wildlife survey in 2022, and were not just taken aback by the size of the multilayered web but what it housed: around 69,000 Tegenaria domestica and 42,000 Prinerigone vagans spiders living side by side in this massive silk structure with an estimated surface area of 106 sq m (1,141 sq ft)
It’s the first time either species has ever been seen living cooperatively, and the first recorded instance of colonial web-building in what’s known as a chemoautotrophic cave.
This cavern, known as Sulfur Cave, houses a chemoautotrophic ecosystem sustained not by sunlight but chemosynthesis – or the process of converting chemical energy into organic matter. Here, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria grow in thick white biofilms on wet rock and sediment. These microbes are then eaten by small invertebrates such as midge larvae and isopods, which are in turn preyed on by larger insects like spiders, beetles, and centipedes. The entire ecosystem is self-contained and independent of external input, running on the energy released when bacteria convert toxic hydrogen sulfide into sulfate.
This remarkable life support system is all thanks to a warm toxic stream that runs through it, with its water a constant temperature of about 26 °C (79 °F) and loaded with dissolved hydrogen sulfide – which gives it its distinctive rotten-egg odor.
Microplastics! They’re in everything, from our bodies to the ocean.
And apparently they’re even found in sediment layers that date back as early as the first half of the 1700s, showing microplastics’ pernicious ability to infiltrate even environments untouched by modern humans.
The scientists were studying lake sediment to test if the presence of microplastics in geological layers would be a reliable indicator for the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch, defined in the study as starting in 1950 and meant to delineate when humans started having a large impact on our environment.
Clearly not, according to this new research, which found microplastics in every layer of sediment they dredged up, including one from 1733.
“We conclude that interpretation of microplastics distribution in the studied sediment profiles is ambiguous and does not strictly indicate the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch,” the scientists wrote.
Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.
Writing on his Gates Notes website, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder criticized what he described as a “doomsday view of climate change” which is focusing “too much on near-term emissions goals”.
Gates’s memo comes a day after the UN said humanity had missed its target of limiting global heating to 1.5C, with the UN secretary general warning of “devastating consequences” for the world.
The first opposite-sex European bison twins born in the Stegaliai enclosure of Dzūkija National Park have been released into the wild, Lithuanian authorities announced Tuesday.
Along with the twins, two additional males and ten adult females were also released, according to the Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture.
The academy said the birth of these twins is a first in Europe. The animals have been registered in the European Bison Pedigree Book (EBPB), and it marks the first time in recorded history that twins of different sexes survived and were successfully released into the wild after strengthening in a controlled environment.
“The birth of European bison twins is an extremely rare phenomenon even on a global scale,” said Artūras Kibiša of the Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture. “There have been only a few cases in the entire modern history of monitoring the species.”
Since 2022, Lithuania has been carrying out a relocation program aimed at creating genetically strong and ecologically balanced herds of European bison living freely in the wild.
Over the past three years, a total of 46 young bison from free populations in Panevėžys, Kėdainiai, and Kaunas districts have been relocated to Dzūkija National Park. A specially equipped 103-hectare enclosure with quarantine and acclimatisation zones ensures the animals adapt smoothly before release.
Using the power density formula above, we find that solar has the lowest power density:
Nuclear fission: 494 ± 266 W/m²
Natural gas: 462.5 ± 277.5 W/m²
Coal: 65.8 ± 39.5 W/m²
Solar PV: 8.7 ± 2.9 W/m²
Thus, 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 (at its best) 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 (at its worst).
Why is energy density important?
Because it is directly related to land requirements and overall reliability.
Solar PV farms take up more land than natural gas or nuclear do, yet power far fewer homes. Case in point, a single 1,000-MWe nuclear power plant occupying a single square mile of land produces enough electricity to power >770,000 American homes throughout the course of a year. To power the same number of homes with a solar PV farm, we would need 4× the installed capacity and 50× the land area.
This is a snippet from a longer piece available at the link above. ABN
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will begin its annual distribution of RABORAL V-RG®, an oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait, in select areas in the eastern United States to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies into America’s heartland.
Rabies is a serious public health concern. While rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms appear, it also is 100% preventable. Human exposures can be successfully remedied if medical attention is sought immediately following exposure. Costs associated with rabies detection, prevention, and control may exceed $500 million annually in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 90 percent of reported rabies cases in the United States are in wildlife.
APHIS and its cooperators will begin distributing ORV baits on or about Aug. 13, 2025, across rural areas by airplane and in suburban or urban areas by helicopter, vehicle, and bait station. ORV baits are coated with a fishmeal attractant and are packaged in two-inch plastic sachets or one-inch square cubes.
The RABORAL V-RG® vaccine is safe for many animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Humans and pets cannot get rabies from contact with the baits but should leave them undisturbed if they are encountered. Dogs that consume many baits may experience a temporary upset stomach, but there are no long-term health risks. If people come in contact with baits, they should immediately wash the contact area with warm water and soap.
ORV baits will be distributed during the following time periods and based out of airports in the cities listed below:
In Northeast to Mid-Atlantic states during August:
The Houlton, Maine, project will cover parts of northern Maine and distribute approximately 713,000 ORV baits by airplane and vehicle.
The Brockport, N.Y., project will include areas in western New York and distribute approximately 100,000 ORV baits by airplane. In addition to RABORAL V-RG®, APHIS will distribute another ORV bait, ONRAB, in select areas of New York as part of an ongoing field assessment.
The North Lima, Ohio, project will involve distribution of approximately 729,000 ORV baits in parts of western Pennsylvania. Field assessment of ONRAB will also occur in western Pennsylvania at the same time.
The Buckhannon, W.Va., project will include portions of western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, distributing approximately 364,000 ORV baits by airplane and vehicle. ONRAB field assessment also will take place in select areas of West Virginia.
In Massachusetts from mid-September through mid-October:
The Cape Cod, Mass., project will cover parts of peninsular and mainland Massachusetts and distribute more than 74,000 ORV baits by helicopter, bait station, and vehicle.
In Southern states during October:
The Abingdon, Va., project will cover parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and a small portion of southern West Virginia, distributing more than 634,000 ORV baits by airplane, helicopter, and vehicle.
The Andrews, N.C., project will include areas in western North Carolina and north Georgia and will distribute 410,000 ORV baits by airplane, helicopter and vehicle.
The Dalton, Ga., project will cover areas in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, distributing approximately 690,000 ORV baits by airplane and helicopter.
The Gadsden, Ala., project will cover parts of northeast and central Alabama (including the Greater Birmingham area) and distribute approximately 718,000 baits by airplane, helicopter, and vehicle.
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