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At http://phys.org/print315143187.html ... comet Siding Spring is on course to come within 84,000 miles of Mars (closer than the Moon is to the Earth) in

An international team led by University of Cambridge researchers has show how entangled magnetic field lines looping from the Sun's surface slop around each other

At http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/greenland-ice-cores-show-natural-swings... ... it seems a new ice core in Greenland has thrown up a few surprises - wild swings in temperature and weather. The

At http://phys.org/print315047622.html .... a fresh look at Viking methods of navigating without a magnetic compass. They were able to reach Greenland, Newfoundland and Baffin Island

At http://phys.org/print315037822.html ... analysis of lunar soil samples seems to indicate the Moon's mantle contains hydrogen from water (possibly indigenous to Earth). The Moon, of

At http://phys.org/print314956904.html ... it seems some physicists are throwing a dash of cold water on the recent enthusiasm displayed at the BICEPS-2 results - see

At http://phys.org/print314910277.html ... we have a story with Einstein leading from the front. This is the way 'entangled particles' stay connected even when separated by

According to a report at http://news.yahoo.com/dinosaur-era-had-5-times-todays-co2-212124284.html ... which is assumed to have caused a greenhouse effect and led to high temperatures on Earth. This has

Gary Gilligan sent in a link to a BBC programme, Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures, at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xsfrq/fossil-wonderlands-natures-hidden... ... which provides confirmation organisms can be buried

Tim Cullen has an interesting post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/the-eye-of-nebraska/ ... and it's all about water welling up from deep inside the Earth - or that is

At http://phys.org/print314615619.html ... particles smaller than the Higgs are now being looked for - what it is that comes together to form the Higgs. See

Shrinking glaciers around the world have revealed plants that once thrived before the ice advanced. This in turn led to a spate of learned papers

In one of those peculiar stories the author keeps telling the reader, don't worry - its not going to happen. Apparently, we are informed, the

Tall Bloke's Talk Shop has an interesting post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/p-a-semi-topology-of-the-curve... ... which is a matter of patterns, I suppose, as we have spherical planets and

The reason is that this is the consensus mainstream theory - but why do they insist on keeping strictly on song when all the evidence

The Current Archaeology piece on human footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk can now be read (part thereof) online - go to www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/first-impressions-discovering-th... (see the earlier

This story is still on the boil and is bound to develop further. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-082 ... and various other science sites on the Internet as

At http://youtu.be/i-T7tCMUDXU ... Gerald Pollack describes the fourth state of water. Tim Cullen, at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/99-of-your-molecules-are-water/ ... begins with Wikipedia's claim that 60 per cent of

This is not a reference to the Big Chill in the winter of 2013/4 but to a period of very cold weather that is recorded

Guess who is speaking at the Electric Universe conference - Piers Corbyn. That should make it a bit exciting - I wonder what he will