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Russian Lake: More Evidence for Recent Cosmic Impacts

Paper: Abbott, D.H., McCafferty, P., et al. (2025). “New Data from a Round, Deep Basin in the Russian Heartland: The Smerdyachee Basin as a Prospective Impact Crater.” Airbursts and Cratering Impacts Link: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2025.0002 The standard model for cosmic impact frequency suggests European Russia should experience one 500-meter crater…
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The Real Deal on Cosmic Summit

International Scientists Announce Vast Underground Structures Beneath Giza — Unveiled at Cosmic Summit 2025

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The Cosmic Tusk Open Access PowerPoint

The Cosmic Tusk is pleased to remind readers that our comprehensive Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis presentation is available for public download and use under Resources > Open Access Free Powerpoint Prepared and refined over years of research, this PowerPoint is designed to convey the essential evidence, logic, and context of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis to audiences of all kinds. It…
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Shocked Quartz at the Boundary — and a Plasma Plume in the Backyard

Nickel Films in the Carolina Bays: Smoking Gun fired from Russia

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Hot Comet News, Cold Shoulders from the Newspaper Science Desks

Last updated: August 10, 2025 The Cosmic Tusk is pleased—frankly, thrilled—to see broad international coverage of the new PLOS ONE paper documenting cometary debris in Baffin Bay sediments and strengthening the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. From Live Science and Discover to Phys.org and ScienceAlert, the story has traveled fast and far across languages and outlets. But here’s something…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

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Nickel Films in the Carolina Bays: Smoking Gun fired from Russia

Nickel Films in the Bays: Smoking Gun from Russia Experiment in Geosciences, Vol. 24, S1 (2018), pp. 52–54 Every once in a while, a little gem pops up in the literature that makes you wonder how on Earth (or from space) you missed it. This one is a beauty. In 2018, a Russian–American team quietly published a short but stunning report in Experiment in Geosciences that should be front‑page…
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Shocked Quartz at the Boundary — and a Plasma Plume in the Backyard

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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes Once again, the Comet Research Group has dealt a blow to mainstream serenity. In a paper published this week in PLOS One, the CRG’s A-team reports startling new findings from ocean sediment cores that appear to support the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis — the audacious…
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Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

New Russian Study Extends the Younger Dryas “Black Mat” to Russia — A Global Cataclysm Confirmed

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Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

Dr. Gunther Kletetschka—a proud Cosmic Summit 2025 speaker—has published a must-read paper that delivers another solid blow to the crumbling edifice of skeptical objections to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH). The article, titled “Misunderstandings about the Tunguska Airburst Event,” was published this summer and is hosted here at ScienceOpen. Kletetschka brings to bear a…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

New Russian Study Extends the Younger Dryas “Black Mat” to Russia — A Global Cataclysm Confirmed

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The Real Deal on Cosmic Summit

We wrapped up Cosmic Summit 2025 five weeks ago and I’m still stunned. It was a wonderful event. For me, it exceeded ‘23 and ‘24 and matured once again exponentially as a intellectual force. More than ever, it fulfilled a central aspiration of the Summit: the cross-pollination and amplification of extraordinary but little heard global perspectives—made possible when digital friends…
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Russian Lake: More Evidence for Recent Cosmic Impacts

International Scientists Announce Vast Underground Structures Beneath Giza — Unveiled at Cosmic Summit 2025