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Not the very modern humans but those that were around 40,000 years ago - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130913093314.htm A rock shelter in Lebanon has produced human fossil

SIS member Robert Farrar has sent in an interesting review of Donald Scott's 'The Electric Sun' - which is worth chewing over. Go to http://www.answersingenesis.org/article/arj/v6/n1/plasma-astronomy

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/10000-year-old-bones-a... ... excavations in Kents Bank Cavern on Morecambe Bay in the 1990s found bones that ended up in a museum in Barrow in

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/plos-pas090613.php ... we have a story about migrations through the Sahara when it had rivers. The full article can be dowloaded in full for

In neo-catastrophism the Cambrian Explosion of Life is not a problem as the rock record is perceived as primarily a record of disasters (catastrophes) and

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/09/dwarf-galaxies-found-to-harbor-100... ... and the title of the post says it all. Modelling of telescope observations, which sounds like a paradox, was used to determine

Northern Earth 135 also has a nice piece on rock art in Scotland's Kilmartin region where there are 133 known panels of rock art in

In Northern Earth 135 (autumn, 2013) there is a little piece with the title, 'what would our ancestors make of this?' which set me thinking.

NASA has released information on the current status of Voyager 1 and the spacecraft has moved into interstellar space, is the claim. It is 12

At http://phys.org/print298105107.html ... a possibly revealing post on the processes occurring at the junction of tectonic plates - in particular subduction zones where one plate

Steve McIntyre has a new post up at Climate Audit - see http://climateaudit.org/2013/09/11/ipcc-and-the-end-of-summer/ ... following a long spell without posting. He has been busy working

Curent Archaeology 283 (Oct 2013) - see www.archaeology.co.uk - has an article on the Cornonation Chair and the Stone of Scone which at one time

At http://phys.org/print298024131.html ... the quixotically named Don Quixote asteroid, the third largest Near Earth Object (or NEO), has changed status. It is now regarded as

At http://phys.org/print297931761.html ... measuring the speed the Universe is expanding has come up with a problem. The mainstream view is that the observable universe has

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/353090/description/Meteorite_that_fe... ... the meteorite that fell last year grounded in California. After melting away some minerals with acid a number of sulphur and oxygen

Science News at www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/353095/description/Egypt_wasnt_built... ... says about that statistical analysis that just 150 artefacts were involved (new C14 dates) taken from textiles, reeds, hairs and

The latest issue of Current Archaeology, 283 (Oct, 2013) available in Smiths Newsagents nowadays so you don't have to subscribe (and see also www.archaeology.co.uk) has

At http://phys.org/print297333060.html ... is a piece on Brown Dwarf stars and why they might have failed to become bright Sun like objects. There are of

At http://phys.org/print297254823.html ... computer simulation solves another puzzle. The beginning of the last glacial period required an accumulation of snow at higher latitudes to form

This story can be found at http://phys.org/print297435137.html ... and this time it is UK scientists in the chase (based at an observatory in Chile). The