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A complication has arisen to the Stone of Destiny identification - the piece of red sandstone that is incorporated into the coronation chair in Westminster

At https://phys.org/print444929150.html ... the headline is, waves similar to those controlling weather on Earth have been found on the Sun. The research is published in

The STEVE has paid a visit to the United States. This picture was taken a few days ago ... go to www.spaceweather.com    ... which

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/26/the-60-year-oscillation-revisited/ ... the 60 year oscillation is an obvious feature in climate data sets - but only back to 1850. Prior to that date

            go to https://www.everythingselectric.com/eie-17/ ... and https://everythingselectric.com/eie-21/ ... Jacobs Ladder

The idea of gods shaking heaven and earth is not only found in the Bible (the words of the prophets and psalms) but is fairly

A fascinating article at www.newgeology.us/presentation21.html ... plate tectonics is too weak to build mountains is the claim. In the 1970s it was accepted the kinematics

At https://phys.org/444413501.hhtml ... new evidence pointing to the existence of the kingdom of David and Solomon has been uncovered - so it is said. It

At https://phys.org/print444408979.html ... new evidence that volcanism drove the Late Devonian extinctions. Perhaps this title should be stood up on its head - new evidence

At https://phys.org/print444379905.html ... why parts of earth have hardly changed over the last 3 billion years. This title refers to ancient rocks in the western

At www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/neandertals-stone-age-people ... it seems that Neanderthals may have been using boats to reach islands in the Mediterranean. In this instance, the Greek island of

The lure of gold in the 19th century (gold fever) seems to have affected the Russians as much as any other Europeans - and they

How a bit of practical knowledge can reshape archaeological views. At www.dispatch.com/news/20180422/teaming-up-to-tackle-mystery-of-hopewell-... ... archaeologists unearth all kinds of objects during excavations and some of them

   ... This image was taken by Harlan Thomas of Bowness of a concentric sun halo. This is Bowness in the US as he claims

There was an outbreak of auroral displays on Friday the 20th April - across the Canadian border and lighting up Illinois and Indiana (and many

  ... it has been a bad winter right across the northern hemisphere. In Japan they have walls of snow 56 feet high (and tourists

An article at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobi... ... the Silurian hypothesis has been aired this month - considering how geology erodes over millions of years would it be

Aty www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fe-vel101317.php ... around 245BC Ptolemy III of Egypt had the Seleucid empire on the run but for some unknown reason decided to turn around

Another otherworldly theory - at https://phys.org/print443181994.html ... the diamond from the sky may have come from the 'lost planet' (but they are not talking about

Sea ice in the Arctic has surged since early March - see http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/17/arctic-freezageddon-sea-ice-volume-su... ... which is derived from a Japanese blogger but see the Danish