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At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23861397 ... St Andrew's University, a stone's throw from Trevor, have created the world's fastest spinning man-made object, a microscopic sphere achieving speeds of

At www.livescience.com/39247-mini-human-brains-grown-in-dish.html ... the first example of a developing human brain to have been created in a laboratory - using stem cell technology

The search for evidence of New Physics continues apace. The idea is to discover extensions to the Standard Model. See http://phys.org/print296713617.html The same story is

This story is at http://phys.org/print296756636.html ... research shows solar radiation peaked in the 1930s. This is not surprising as the highest temperatures of the 20th

An interesting piece of research from Spain - see http://phys.org/print296738850.html ... the facts on the ground don't appear to fit the assumed picture. Mountain glaciers

At http://phys.org/print296718236.html ... airline pilots often reported seeing strange lights, nicknamed sprites. They observed them when flying during storms, sometimes high above the actual clouds

Both The Times and the Independent newspapers have posted pieces on the Beowulf connection with Danish excavations at Lejre, 23 miles west of Copenhagen. See

At http://phys.org/print296759652.html ... some images of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor which seem to show the object had been involved with a previous encounter of

Tall Bloke is back on to the theme of the Golden Ratio. His last post on the subject did not go down so well but

The Times, August 16th, ran a story on Bath Abbey, and building renovations designed to repair subsidence and install underfloor heating at the same time.

The UK heatwave dissipated a few weeks ago but for a while Alasaka and the Canadian Arctic enjoyed some lovely summer weather, reaching 29C (84F)./

Not sure how important this might be but Tall Bloke thinks he is on to something - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/rog-tallbloke-carbon14-and-sol... ... an interesting post even if

A parish in Lousiana is being swallowed by a sink hole (sometimes known as swallow holes because they swallow objects). At http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/watch-this-sink-hole-s... ... there is

It might be the title of an old pop song but there is something in those words. Go to http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/the-science-behind-honey... ... salt, sugar, and dried

An interesting story at http://phys.org/print296465433.html ... African mountain bamboos are hidden away, like the mountain gorillas that feed on them, in the mountains at the 

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn24082-early-south-americans-conquered-the... ... it is assumed the Atacama desert was a barrier to human settlement but excavations of a site on a low hill surrounded

The post on Giant Redwoods on August 24th included the information of a narrow growth tree ring event at 1739AD that could not be attributed

At www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929303.400-worods-oldest-temple-built-t... ... we have an update on Gobekli Tepe, which consists of around 20 circular enclosures. Each is surrounded by a ring of T

At http://phys.org/print296285682.html ... excavations at Gabii, to the east of Rome, have revealed a buried structure made of giant stone blocks resembling a Lego construct

At www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeologists-find-israel-was-land-of-milk-hon... ... the discovery of 27 flasks going back to 1000BC (Iron I) found 10 of them were containers for cinnamon. This spice is