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Mercury is throwing up some surprises according to a paper in Science - see www.physorg.com/print251643931.html. For example, it has an iron core that comprises approximately

The climate versus human hunter theory has surfaced once again in Australia and once again achieves very little in settled science but does manage once

At www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9161483/Hoard-of-30000-silver-ro... (March 22nd) ... a hoard of coins dating from the 3rd century AD has been found not far from the famous Roman baths

At www.io9.com March 22nd there is a piece on the Higgs boson and the fact one physicist gave his name to the theoretical particle when

This story can  be found at a number of blogs but not necessarily in mainstream media - the BBC have ignored it for example. One

At www.physorg.com/print251533118.html ... a piece on sunspots and solar flares and an image of a solar flare from March 13th. The flare is described as

A ten cubic km wedge of sand now exists in the northern North Sea basin, somewhat south of Norway and east of Scotland, enough to

Global sea levels are pretty well flat at the moment but a paper in the journal Geology is not at all discouraged by this and

At www.physorg.com/print250746994.html ... the Nobel scientist who warned the world of thinning ozone in the atmosphere has died - and suddenly all the hype has

At www.physorg.com/print251310652.html ... University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems

At www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=137665 ... the Sofia News Agency is reporting on the discovery of a monastery in Bulgaria that was founded in AD344 b y St

Fascinating piece at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145802.htm ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters, 'Holocene Aridification of India' is based on a sediment core extracted from the Bay

Following on from yesterday (Bill Napier email from 2005) the YD impact hypothesis is revisited at http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/the-younger-dryas-impact-hy... in which the author begins by saying the

Bill Napier, in an email to the Benny Peiser Cambridge Conference Network in 2005 (in reply to criticism of the Clube and Napier model) said,

At www.physorg.com/print251143024.html ... namely, the Solar Probe Plus mission and a piece of electronic wizardry being assembled by Justin Kasper - eyes across 100 million

At www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeol... and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17378845 is another discovery, this time in Cambridgeshire, of a grave with rich trappings that indicates the dark age was not really

At http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/htm ... Polish researchers have redated burials at Meidum that were formerly restricted to dynasty 4. It seems burials continued at the necropolis all

At www.physorg.com/print251104689.html .... we learn that the asteroid that came close to earth earlier in the year will do the same thing next year. Known

An excellent piece by guest poster William McClenney at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/16/the-end-holocene-or-how-to-make-ou... which is an update on an earlier posting. His argument is that CAGW people are

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17353470 ... animal and human fossil footprints found in peat and covered by sand at Borth beach in Ceredigion have been dated between four