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Elephants, it seems, emit low rumbles in much the same way as a human might sing, blowing air through the larynx, or voice box. It

at http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com there is a good article on pottery finds in China dating back to 20,000 years ago, and another on a 5th century ad

Physics at the Edge - the edge of what? Playing to the fanfare on the Higgs Boson release a paper in Physical Review Letters (see

We've had tropical weather in the Arctic and it follows the same must have occurred in the Antarctic. Now, a rock core on the sea

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/07/giant-claw-in-desert-... ... An Aboriginal stockman found crocodile teeth and shards of bone in the desert, 160km north of Alice Springs, some years ago. For

At www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silchester-iron-age-roman-britain?INTC... ... excavations at Silchester have revealed the Atrebates tribe were living a fairly Roman like kind of lifestyle and diet 50 odd years

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/07/22/on-the-shoulders-of-suppressed-giant... ... Rens van der Sluijs wonders why Velikovsky cites some early catastrophists but fails to mention others - even where there is a

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uot-aue073012.php ... archaeologists have unearthed a human sculpture at Tell Tayinat. It had originally been about 3m in height but had been destroyed and

At www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/cousins-of-neanderthals-left-dna-in-a... ... the New York Times reports on the study in the journal Cell (see a couple of days ago) and they fill out

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19011013 details of another theory on the formation of the Moon begins by saying it 'is certain that some sort of impact from another

At http://phys.org/print262538410.html ... its ozone loss that is frightening some scientists it seems, according to a paper in the journal Science (July 27th 2012) -

At http://phys.org/print262508826.html ... new research on dark energy can deduce the End Times - the fate of the Universe, no less. The paper comes from

The global warming controversy has travelled down some funny lanes to nowhere but surely it has taken a wrong turn when it encourages planting trees

At http://phys.org/print262453864.html ... research into the Alpine fault on New Zealand's 'South Island' following on from the Christchurch earthquake, has discovered big ones occur roughly

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/discovery-of-early-med... ... at Trusty Hill which squats over Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway. There are Pictish symbols carved into a natural rock outcrop at

Stevie Goddard is on something of a roll. He now has a post that is simple and easy for anyone to understand - as long

A post at http://anthropology.net (20th July 2012) is about a new paper published in the journal Cell, 'Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High Coverage Whole-Genome

A revealing post at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/23/tisdale-on-the-problems-with-enso-... ... is a good post by Bob Tisdale on his favourite topic, the ocean circulation system. He has written a

At http://phys.org/print262262347.html ... how much did humans impact on the landscape - or for how much are they responsible for the destruction of eco systems,

At http://phys.org/print262258004.html .... the last volcanic eruption in Spain has now been dated to around 13,000 years ago, which is remarkably close to the Younger