In the News

  ... an image of a blue jet of lightning leaping up from the atmosphere of the earth. The picture was taken by a Danish

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/02/06/35-scientific-papers-global-sea-level... ... in this post the blog author seeks to show rising co2 levels will not cause glaciers to melt and therefore sea levels

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uoe-hoa020617.php ... an update on the earthworks and human impact on the western Amazonian rainforest. Research s ongoing - aided and abetted by logging

At www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/31/saturns-rings-contain-millions-m... ... Saturn's rings contain millions of moonlets - or should that say pieces of debris. Yes, the news flash does say millions of

The black hole feeding frenzy theory is back, hot on the press at https://phys.org/print405603958.html ... and not only that the feeding frenzy is breaking records.

At https://earth-pages.co.uk/2016/10/14/scablands-megaflood-hypothesis-temp... ... which is last year's story. An adaptation of the megaflood theory into a succession of floods as a result of the discovery

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/02/02/could-a-new-global-temperature-recons... ... which poses an unusual question - are ice cores useful in reconstructing 20th century temperature? I've always imagined it takes quite a

At https://phys.org/print405334172.html ... we have one of the more exciting science findings in recent years. Earth's water may have originally been formed 'deep within it's

At http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2017-archive/january/discovery-of-new-fos... ... the fossil loriciferan is so small it was thought to be fossilisable.    ... It is in fact a microfossil and was

At https://phys.org/print405251294.html ... Japanese researchers have been looking at a red spot on Pluto. It may have developed, they suggest, after a collision. It is

It seems that Baltic hunter gatherers took up farming in a piecemeal fashion and there is no evidence of admixture with migrants from Anatolia. It's

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170131104433.htm ... a paper by RB Hayes of North Carolina State University in Nuclear Technology (2017) claims there is a flaw in the radio-isotope

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/01/still-far-more-worrisome-than-glo... ... just noticed this one after visiting Anthony Watts place. Solar physicist Leif Svalgaard informed Anthony of the possibility of a Carrington style

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cow-carved-stone-paints-picture-of-e... ... we have a new image of the auroch with dots on an engraved stone in Palaeolithic Europe, roughly 38,000 years ago.   

At https://phys.org/print405174346.html ... ancient DNA reveals continuity between stone age and modern populations in East Asia. The DNA came from human remains found in a

After looking at (last week) the explanation for rapid bursts of x-rays and ultra violet light from the Electric Universe perspective (courtesy of Stephen Smith)

A new article at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2017/article/climate-change-... ... it has been increasingly shown that population numbers had already crashed prior to the arrival of Europeans. The latter

At www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/22608-new-finds-at-oldest-island... ... excavations at an ancient sanctuary on the Greek island of Keros have revealed it goes back at least to 3000BC. Colin Renfrew

At http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/the-mars-rover-found-a-meteorite-m... .... a video of an iron meteorite found by the Mars rover trundling over the surface of Mars At www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/the-milky-way-is-being-hurled-through-spa... ... another video.

Scientists sometimes don't do humour. Or at least the author of an article at 'The Conversation' displays a lack of humour - see https://phys.org/print405073075.html ...