In the News

At http://phys.org/print266762185.html ... the events in the Arctic this year, although still impeding Shell's attempts to drill in the sea bed, have given birth to

At http://phys.org/print266649953.html ... research has found too many taus decay from bottom quarks to fit the Standard Model (of the universe). It also indicates problems

There has been a nice discussion on the whereabouts of Punt on the Eric Aitchison inspired chronology email link - which is always open to

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/perthshire-stone-circl... ... is a piece on a stone circle in Perthshire beneath the backdrop of Schiehalion, the mountain associated by the fringe with the

Current Archaeology 271 (Oct 2012) (see also www.archaeology.co.uk) has an article on some recent excavations in Winchester by one of those big archaeological bodies, Oxford

The previous article only concerns Stonehenge in a peripheral manner and was perhaps used to garner some publicity as anything involving Stonehenge is hoisted higher

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343984/title/Herders_not_farmers_bui... .... although the idea of growing crops had been introduced into Britain and Ireland before 4000BC it is being claimed that by the

At http://phys.org/print266134066.html ... the oather day is was a star that had too much lithium and now we have a dearth of lithium. Scientists think

At www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/6/global-warming-fanatics-take-note/ ... the Chinese have kept detailed records of sun spots, it is claimed, and they noticed that more sun spots = warmer weather,

We are used to finding ammonites in various places in the UK, such as the collapsed cliffs at Charmouth in Dorset, dating back to the

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/ ... an image from the La Silla Observatory in the Andes (Chile) has picked out a globular star cluster, Menier 4, with an

At http://phys.org/print265992535.html ... the ESA satellite Planck, which changes direction every hour as well as rotating once a minute on its axis, may have found

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/land-near-petra-was-a-... .... a system of underground canals cut out of the limestone bedrock took water from reservoirs to terraced fields in the land of

Some interesting ideas by Rens Van Der Sluijs on thunderstones at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/08/28/theories-on-the-rocks-in-a-flash/ (in several parts) as a feature of the Picture of the Day series.

More speculation on black holes - see www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/the-first-supermassive-black-holes/ ... these were, it says, formed shortly after the Big Bang according to a research group from

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/surveying-romes-forgot... ... the Gask Ridge frontier is associated with a line of Roman forts and watchtowers first picked out by aerial photography, stretching from

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343399/title/DNA_unveils_enigmatic_D... ... is a piece of research on the DNA as revealed from a single finger bons and a two teeth found in Siberia

At http://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html ... there is a list of articles on Z pinch instabilities and aurora, including number 15 and 18, 'Characteristics for the Occurrence of

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5940/sugar-found-near-two-star-system/ ... sugar molecules have been discovered in the gas surrounding a binary star system 400 light years from the Earth, according to Danish

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-265&cid=release_2012-265 ... we learn that the WISE mission, which ended last year, discovered what they say are millions of black holes. Millions of them,