In the News

At http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/heres-what-antarctica-... ... there are some nice images, erived from computer modelling, of the Antarctic and what it looks like beneath the ice. Trees and

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/black-widow-pulsar-at-the-top-of-s... .... a pulsar appears to be travelling through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million km an hour. A bow shock

The Russian meteor forum at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10572 ... is now 20 pages of discussion.

At http://phys.org/print289737797.html ... stalagmites from a cave in Borneo have been used to produce a 100,000 year temperature tool, displaying warmings and coolings during the

At www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html .... new information on Viking voyages in N America has emerged. Not only were they trading with indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic

This story has been circulating on the web for a week or so - and here we have a belated link , go to www.world-science.net/othernews/130111_LQG

As noted a week or so ago, George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/wittke_pnas_younger_dryas_clovis_comet/ ... posted news of a fresh paper on the YD event. So far he

This post was sent from http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/can-the-moon-change-our-climate-can-tid... ... Joanne asks the question. Meanwhile, Piers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com thinks the Moon does affect the climate as his

The full paper is available at www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003460... ... all 27 pages in full. This story was posted a week or so ago - South American

The monthly magazine, British Archaeology, May 2013, has an interesting editorial by archaeologist Mike Pitts (he also has a website - see http://mikepitts.wordpress.com and www.britisharchaeology.org/ba129).

In Fortean Times (FT302) June 2013 ... Bob Rickard reports on the TED affair, the furore that developed around Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock, saying

In Current World Archaeology issue 59, volume 5:11, May 2013 (see also www.world-archaeology.com and www.facebook.com/currentworldarchaeology) there is an article on Tas Silg, a temple recorded

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/02/multiple-intense-abrupt-late-pleis... ... is a post by Dan Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University (bellingham). There is nothing especially important about it, and it

Excuse me for labouring this particular paper but it appears to have some important things to say which are quite contrary to the current consensus

At http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/16/gut-bacteria-recap-th... ... is an interesting post forwarded by member Brian Sherwood Jones  in response to a post a few days ago. The evolution of

At http://phys.org/print289204265.html ... physicist Peter Wittich explained the Higgs Bosun and what it all means - and all about the Large Hadron Collider. Looks like

Obviously, one might say. You could hardly imagine them with a spanner in the hand and the bonnet open. No, this is more to do

Interesting piece of geology this - the remains of an Alpine forest found in a clay layer. How long did it take the clay to

At http://phys.org/print289127301.html ... researchers at the Open University and the University of Manchester have found conclusive proof ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make artifacts -

At http://phys.org/print289131595.html ... the Gemini Observatory on Hawaii has released new images of Comet C/2012 SI (ISON) on its journey through the solar system and