In the News

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5147023/Huge-ancient-Chinese-wat... ... the Chinese Liangzhu culture (Neolithic) created dams and levees as part of a vast hydraulic engineering exercise 5000 years ago at the

Gary also sent this link at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5144169/Earth-bombarded-small-pl... ... (see also https://phys.org/print431591593.html ). Collisions 'after' the formation of the Moon 'remodelled' early Earth - all by

Gary sent in this link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5145709/Rare-Bronze-Age-iron-too... ... (see also https://phys.org/print431602816.html ) meteoric iron was in use during the Bronze age is the them of

Physicists did not like Andre Meader's claim that dark matter and dark energy do not exist - see News item at www.sis-group.org.uk/news/empty-space.htm ... Maeder's argument

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/11/21/history-of-electric-comet-theory-par... ... by Hannes Tager. This is the fourth in the series as the electric comet hypothesis is discussed in relation to what scientists

At https://phys.org/print431281100.html ... southern ocean drives massive blooms of tiny phytoplankton - as seen by a NASA satellite ...   ... a massive summertime bloom

William suggested looking at the book below after he had read the post at www.sis-group.org.uk/news/plate-tectonics-different.htm ... The book is by Donald Wesley Patten, 'The Biblical

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/first-evidence-fo... ... it seems Caesar may have landed at Pegwell Bay in the Isle of Thanet in 54BC and a fort was constructed to

William forwarded a link to a video of Wal Thornhill - go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJjrD5pq_I ... which questions the idea gravitational waves were really detected and

Robert Farrar sent in the link to this post. However, it was featured a days ago in an earlier News post, on November 24th, at

A black hole anomaly - see https://phys.org/print431092750.html ... at the centre of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole,

At https://phys.org/print431099162.html ... geophysicists discover evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics - although it doesn't really sound much like plate movements. J Tuzo

In Current Archaeology 333 (December 2017) we learn that one third of Neolithic stone axes in Britain come from greenstone outcrops at the foot of

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/lmsu-shd112717.php ... and https://phys.org/print431074151.html ... we have a story of a camel painted on the walls of a cave in the southern Urals that

The Indus civilisation thrived during the third millennium BC and into the 2nd millennium BC (basically it was contemporary with the Bronze age in Egypt,

Speaking of water, scientists discover evidence of recent water flow on Mars - see https://phys.org/print430640889.html ... and the scientists in question come from a number

Oh dear. The mainstream thought vigilantes have been out in force after the parents of a precocious biology student witnessed a man from the water

Space dust can transport life between planets - see www.astronomy.com/news/2017/11/life-in-dust#.Whh0luAwbyE.mailto ... dust and debris form ancient asteroid collisions, and outflow from comets as well as

At https://phys.org/print430554336.html ... when a comet passed through the inner solar system at the beginning of 2017 it presented astronomers with the chance to turn

This is an interesting story and can be found at various places on the Internet - for example, at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/22/discovery-lightning-creates-anti-... .. lightning creates anti matter