When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky. Saving Tips June 5, 2026 Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…
In 1859 a storm on the Sun struck the Earth so hard that telegraph wires threw sparks and operators were shocked at their desks, and scientists warn the same event today would knock out power grids across entire continents. Saving Tips May 31, 2026 The historical claim in the lede is well documented. On 1 and 2 September 1859, a coronal mass ejection from…
