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We've had evidence of a long occupation at Inverness and now a similar discovery has been found at Aberdeen - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/bronze-age-settleme... Early Bronze Age

Here's one for the kiddies - and the twinkle in the eyes. Chinese researchers have come across a cache of hundreds of pterosaur eggs -

This story is at http://phys.org/print321105310.html ... a new study of supermassive black holes has found magnetic fields play a prominent role in proceedings. This was

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/06052014/article/archaeologists-exc... ... surprisingly, the lower city of Mycenae has never properly been investigated. This is the town outside the citadel with its Lion Gate

At http://cosmictusk.com/big-burn-north-american-great-plains-underlain-by-... ... George Howard provides the full paper to read (published in Nature Geoscience on May 25th, 2014. It is five pages long and

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/lenr-year-of-answers/ ... 2014 is likely to be important for Cold Fusion (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors or LENR) according to www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/15/cold-fusion-moves-into-mainstream  ... but strangely, since

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/05/chinese-study-implies-that-the-mod... ... is this another instance of Chinese science overtaking Western science. The latter has become bogged down in peer review and political shenanigans,

I think I might have done this story before - but due to another published paper. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/05/when-worlds-collide-study-says-our... ... we learn that a new bout

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2647295/Water-didnt-carve-Mars-c... ... basically, a group of scientists are saying water did not carve out the canyons on Mars. This idea is in fact relatively

At http://westerndigs.org/13500-year-old-tool-making-site-uncovered-in-idah... ... an archaeological site on a river bank in Idaho has come upon evidence of humans living there 13,500 years ago - in

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-171 (see also www.nasa.gov/kepler and http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/). A rocky planet weiging 17 times as much as the Earth but just over twice the size is

This is essentially physics rather than climate science - although the latter relies on some consensus physics thinking. At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/co2-does-not-black-body-radiatio... ... which should be a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/remains-of-burnt-an... .... a city in Chandigarh in India has a burnt layer, eight feet high, dating to the second century BC. Mike Baillie has

At http://phys.org/print320658152.html ... two Chinese researchers have suggested black holes might not be all they are cracked up to be. They may in fact be

Over at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/carbon-14-seeing-the-light/ ... Tim Cullen continues his quest to disect carbon 14 methodology - and where its weaknesses might lie. It has continued through

At http://joannenova.com.au/2014/05/earth-creates-tides-in-the-rock-of-the-... ... we are all used to the Moon creating tides in the seas and oceans on Earth, but in the opposite direction, it

At http://phys.org/news/2014-05-nasa-iris-gigantic-eruption-solar.html ... the NASA IRIS instrument with the mission of observing the surface of the Sun has managed to catch a CME in the

We had a wonderful television story from Canada the other week, a polar bear that became friends with a dog. They enjoyed a bit of

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/05/the-universe-is-not-expanding-an-a... ... we have all been inculcated with the idea the universe began with a big bang event, an act of creation. This kind

At http://phys.org/print319999018.html ... NASAs 'Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer' (WISE mission) has been looking at black holes - and they don't seem to conform to consensus