In the News

I think I've already posted this one but it has popped up again at http://spaceweather.com (July 20th 2018) ... did you know spiders can fly?

Apparently, 15 monumental temples and some 200 standing stones have been discovered as part of a geophysical survey around Gobekli Tepe. See www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/new-temples-stones-found-in-turkeys-gobeklitepe-... ... the

Sent in by William. Interesting take on Revelations, the last book of the Bible. Trumpet judgement 1 includes a meteor or bolide, no 2 refers

At https://phys.org/print450700415.html ... a team of scientists grew dinosaur era palnts in an atmosphere with high co2 levels which is thought to reproduced the atmospheric

These linsk came from Jovan. Many thanks. At www.astronomy.com/news/2018/07/icecube-blazar-neutrinos ... and concerns the discovery of a neutrino that is  project to have been emitted from

Sent in by Robert - a new volcano on Io (recorded by the Juno mission) - got to https://astronomynow.com/2018/07/14/a-new-volcano-on-io-juno-data-indica... ... Io is the most geologically

At https://phys.org/print450598731.html ... rice is grown in rice paddies - a wetland environment. Why? Plants do not like excessive waterlogging - and some plants actively

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/wind-energys-big-disposal-pro... ... wind energy's big disposal problem. Germany has 28,000 wind turbines but many are nearing the end of their lives. Within the next

At https://phys.org/print450944776.html ... Clovis First dominated archaeology for years - but now we have archaeologists exploring below Clovis layers (at Gault near Austin in Texas

At http://spaceweather.com ... (13th July 2018) a green flash on Mars as it is approaching the Earth on the nearest point of its orbit. Mars

At https://phys.org/print450766148.html ... evidence of two volcanoes in Japan connected through a common subterranean magma source. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/16/sound-waves-reveal-huge-cache-of-... ... sound waves appear to show the

In Current World Archaeology 90 (August edition, 2018) (see www.world-archaeology.com) we have news of ongoing research (post Iraq war) at the Sumerian ancient city of

At https://phys.org/print450422309.html ... an archaeological site near Seville in Spain was occupied between 3200 and 2300BC - two dates of significance as they coincide with

At https://phys.org/print450409594.html ... giant dinosaurs lived on Earth much earlier than thought. The recently discovered dinosaur graveyards in Argentina are throwing up facts not envisaged

Robert sent in the link www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/07/10/listening-in-on-enceladus/ ... (but see also https://phys.org/print450428555.html ) ... new research from NASAs Cassini spacecraft's final orbits show a powerful and

Robert sent in the link https://astronomynow.com/2018/07/02/dawn-zooms-in-on-vestas-enigmatic-oc... ... the Dawn spacecraft is nearing the Ceres asteroid. At http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/hayabusa2/ ... the Japanese space mission to asteroid Ryugu,

At https://chaamjamal.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/a-theory-of-ice-age-cycles/ ... an intriguing blog post by Chaam Jamal concerning some ideas by Gerald Marsh, a retired laboratory physicist who challenged mainstream views that

This new paper was so way out that Antony posted it at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/02/claim-worlds-first-animals-caused... ... alarmists can blame virtualy anything for global warming, and they do,

At www.sepp.org (the Science and Environmental Policy Project, which has similarities to the GWPF over here in the UK) has a regular newsletter. On July

Big news this week on the astronomy front - NuSTAR mission proves superstar Eta Carinae shoots out cosmic rays (see https://phys.org/print449835766.html ... a study using