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HJ Melosh of Purdue University has written a paper on impact cratering - and the role of shocked quartz in determining if a meteor was

At www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2017/marine-Megafauna.html ... University of Zurich researchers have homed in on an extinction event around 2 million years ago when a third of large marine

At https://phys.org/print419498625.html ... two researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales have used data from NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory to look at the quiet sides of

Interesting video at the link below - but it seems to have brought the alarmists out wringing their hands and crying in their sleep (going

At www.sciencenews.org/article/copper-otzi-iceman-axe-came-from-surprisingl... ... it seems the axe Otzi the Iceman was carrying was made of copper - and it has been traced back to a

Gobekli Tepe in modern SE Turkey is an impressive megalithic structure - or series of structures. They date back to the early Holocene period -

At http://pagosaconferences.com/past-conferences/from-nineveh-to-chaco-cale... ... Henry Zemel is president of the CAENO Foundation (see www.caeno.org ) which supports historical and experimental research on the chronology of early

Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation, or General Relativity, is now a central pillar of consensus physics and science - but it was not always so.

Bill Napier, one half of Clube and Napier, is on the Tusk - see http://cosmictusk.com/open-letter-napier-joe-rogan-podcast/ ... with a letter he wrote as a result of

Laurence Dixon sent in details of a Royal Society paper by GG Nyambuya of the Dept of Physcis at Bulawayo University. He begins by saying

Two posts at Tall Bloke's talk shop on July 9th 2017. The first one is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/the-real-cause-of-climate-cha... ... is by Roger shortly before going on

   You can see Naxos as a large island in the Cyclades. Presumably at some time this would have all been joined up to Greece

Solar cycle 24 has been relatively quiet for the last few weeks but a huge coronal hole has opened up over the last few days

Montem Mound is situated on the main A4 route through Slough, in a particularly busy spot overlooking a major junction. Many people stuck in their

At https://phys.org/print418470684.html ... sediment cores from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica were collected by the British Antarctic Survey and an international team of scientists

Fake News has been in the news in recent weeks as Trump has accused his critics in the media of not just telling porkies but

It seems the Out of Africa people are on the back foot once again. No doubt they will rebound but cracks are increasingly appearing in

At https://phys.org/print418368262.html ... modeling upsets theory. A pulsar in a far away galaxy send out x-ray beams that pass earth every 1.37 seconds. Scientists originally

A tower of human skulls has been found in Mexico City, going back to the Aztec era. See www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tower-human-skulls-mexico-casts-new-light-azt... ... where archaeologists have unearthed 675

Noctilucent cloud activity is occurring over Europe in early July. See www.spaceweather.com July 3rd 2017 ...      ... Recent nightfalls have brought glowing ripples of