In the News

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-103&cid=release_2012-103 the WISE mission has been used to spot blazars shining in the sky. Blazars are energetic and are said to be supermassive black

Tall Bloke says at 10.40pm April 12th, 2012 .... solar physicists have a dreadful insecurity problem due to their problems with understanding the Sunb. The

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/the-big-oscillation-ocean-heat... ... can it be that ocean heat crossing the equator influences global warming? The source appears to be Bob Tisdale at http://wattsupwiththat.com monthly

At www.independent.co.uk/history/secrets-of-the-earliest-britons-could-be-h... ... archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Early Neolithic portal dolmen in a field in Pembrokeshire - together with a linear alignment

At www.physorg.com/print249024405.html ... a NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon has relayed images of what looks like recent geological activity. It appear as if the crust

Talk of the Devil. In yesterday's post, magnetic reconnection was quoted from a press release by www.space.com (see In the News 8th April, Venus Aurora)

The Times, (March 31st, 2012) in 'Shining a light on the origins of Islam' is a review of In the Shadow of the Sword, by

The hot spell in central and eastern US in March was caused by warm air from the Caribbean blown northwards by a high pressure system

At www.stuff.co.nz/science/6700701/Ancient-skeleton-linked-to-polynesia ... road construction has come across a burial going back 8000 years on Taiwan and believed to be of direct descent of the

Gary sent in this one - Surprise! Venus may have auroras - yet it is not supposed to have a magnetic field (see www.space.com/15171-venus-auroras-magnetic-field.html). Apparently,

At http://cosmictusk.com/Sand-sheets-from-michigan-davias-presentation-to-a... ... Michael Davias is placing a date around 40,000 years ago on the Carolina Bay formation. George Howard makes the point that no

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17611404 ... we are told, with a trifle of Auntie's biased glee, rising co2 may have been, in part, responsible for the end of

'Cosmic Dust in the Terrestrial Atlmosphere' was the focus of a meeting at the National Academy in Manchester on March 30th. An EU research grant

There are some fascinating posts on the blog of Tall Bloke over the last few days - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com or Tall Bloke's Talkshop. For example,

At www.physorg.com/print252575011.html ... sun quakes can be produced from eruptions of magnetic field and charged particles, according to the National Academy Meeting 2012, which is

At http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-dark-spots-120402.html ... a piece on the discovery of glass on the surface of Mars - and explanations offered. Dark patches visible across much of

At www.physorg.com/print252580354.html ... the South Pole Telescope is being used to explain the mystery of dark energy. The paper is in the Astrophysical Journal and

Excellent TV programme this evening, 4th April 2012, on BBC 2, 'Woolly Mammoth:Secrets from the Ice' .... although Alice Roberts bows to the BBC doctrine

Coral off Tahiti shows a dramatic and rapid rise in sea level of around 14m at 14,600 years ago - at the onset of the

At www.physorg.com/print252331686.html ... computer simulation of the July of 2009 impact event, picked up by an amateur astronomer the following day, has tried to find