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At http://phys.org/print312113734.html ... the headlines read, astronomers find solar storms behave like supernovae. What really are supernovae? Researchers have discovered that coronal mass ejections, or

At http://phys.org/print312133436.html ... it might have been a damp squib for the EU people as Comet ISON has disappeared, blown to smithereens as it approached

Member William Thompson has sent in the title of a book that provides another mother lode. It is Kirk Johnson and Ian Miller, 'Digging Snowmastodon:

At http://phys.org/print312139726.html ... we learn that Venus behaves strangely as a result of the solar wind, almost as if it has the hiccups or is

We've all read the posts at www.thunderbolts.info and watched the various videos - but is it all so clear cut. Surely some of us have

Email request via the contact address on the web page has come in concerning the Venus Tablets of Ammisaduga. Is there a reliable translation anywhere?

A member forwarded a link to the Daily Mash - weather experts confirmed the headline above by looking up Norse mythology which describes extensive flooding

At http://phys.org/print311767523.html ... a couple of years ago Bird Flu was the big doomsaying myth - and don't we like being frightened out of our

That was the title of a book but in this instance the enigma is outlined at http://phys.org/print311926419.html ... in a paper in the Journal of

At www.timesofisrael.com/roving-sea-peoples-may-have-settled-transjordan-ar... ... we learn that a site in the Jordan valley, currently being excavated by a Swedish team, has found artifacts which resemble those

Peter Fairlie-Clarke responded to the post on torrential rain and portents in the sky on 17th February and provided us with a source that might

At http://phys.org/print311929448.html ... we are told Einstein didn't accept the expanding universe theory for a long time but later found it was a way to

Robert Farrar sent the two links below - just the sort of material In the News requires. Members are asked not to be so skimpy

Ther discoveries at Happisburgh have excited some of the media. Here are two links to videos - www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2014/feb/we-were-here-earliest-humans-leave-... See also http://blogs.channel4.com/tom-clarke-on-science/oldest-human-footprints-... and have a look

The earthwork known as Vespasian's Camp, named after a Roman general, is situated on a hill with wide views over the surrounding countryside. It is

At http://suspecterrane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/its-controversial.html ... this is a geologist's take on the fracking issue and the wild publicity and propaganda he says is bandied around in order

What has Patrick McCafferty been up to since he gave a talk at an SIS meeting a few years ago? Well, he pops up as

In the 19th century fertiliser was at a premium. Soot, bones, ashes, dung, maltings and various other things were tried in order to increase the

There is an interesting article at the Daily Mail Online. It is featured  elsewhere but there are some nice images on the newspaper web site

A post at http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/16/uncovered-16th-century-hallucinatory-... ... is derived from Online Speigel and their review of a book, 'The Book of Miracles' (available via Amazon and other