In the News

At http://phys.org/print401043545.html ... it seems the large asteroid Ceres has some evidence of ice. NASAs Dawn mission sent back images of a dark cratered rocky

The quest of NASA is to find water on Mars - and therefore to find evidence of life. Curiosity Rover has been analysing the ground

At http://phys.org/print400858229.html .... apparently, ocean bottom crust in the modern world is thinner than it was prior to the break up of the supercontinent of

This is the second time we have had a post on the Atacama desert in Chile. In this post we learn that the desert hosted

At www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4025054/Chinese-archaeologists-begin-ex... ... we have a story sent in by Gary. Chinese archaeologists begin to excavate a 2600 year old city wiped out by floods

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/15/agu16-researchers-dial-in-to-ther... ... yes, a thermostat in the atmosphere that works like a thermostat in a car engine. It dramatically cools the air after it

It seems the Amesbury Archer may not have hailed from the Alps as the media and archaeologists have been trumpeting for the last few years.

A couple of videos worth looking at. In the first one we have the origins of halloween and the role of the Pleiades. In the

The Green Machine (sometimes likened to a blob that spreads on all sides gagging opposition with gobbledegook) is a bit like a black hole, devouring

At http://phys.org/print400491395.html ... clues about the timing of Jupiter's formation. New research suggests the presence of Jupiter near the asteroid belt may account for a

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-s-co2-passes-the-400-ppm-thresh... ... we have a CAGW piece of alarmism. It seems co2 may have passed 400 ppm permanently (but we don't really know). So

Saturn has a bulging core we are told at http://phys.org/print400347557.html ... did you know that? It seems the Cassini mission has thrown up this odd

At www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/dec/07/archaeology-sheds-light-on-... ... which is one of those doom laden Guardian non-stories that get the CAGW tribe all excited and bleating like sheep. Apparently, global

This si the title of a new book by Douglas Petrovich, a Canadian archaeologist. He has, or is about to, invite a lot of criticism

At http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-... ... a segment of the tail of a juvenile dinosaur, complete with feathers, as been found trapped in amber as reported in Current

In the journal Geology (28th July 2015) doi:10.1130/G36914.1 ... there is an article that seeks to establish a synchronicity in key Holocene chronologies by extracting

Again, from Northern Earth 147 (December 2016), Eric Fitch recalls he was innocently listening to a classics CD featuring the music of Purcell, specifically the

Bob Trubshaw, writing in Northern Earth 147 (December 2016) has been reading an Oxbow Archaeological publication written by archaeologist Alastair Whittle (in 1997). This concerns

On our home page we have a Face Book link to Phil Silvia who has been taking part in excavations at Tall el-Hammam in the

Some more info has been published about Plut0 - and Charon (see http://phys.org/print399842130.html ). Is there life in the sub surface ocean on Pluto? Is