In the News

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm ... various studies and attempts to trace the origin of the domestic dog by DNA have been aired over recent years, tending to

The Oxford clay geological layer forms a bed that runs from Weymouth to East Anglia - usually well below the surface. It was found to

Sir Henry James in an article in a journal called The Athenaeum, in 1860, explained Ice Ages by the migration of the axis of rotation.

At www.physorg.com/print246274195.html there is a report on research in Japan and a paper in Physical Review Letters on problems associated with rotation of the Earth,

At http://aegyptologie.unibas.ch/forschung/projekte/university-of-basel-kin... news of the discovery of an 18th dynasty tomb not far from KV40. The entrance was blocked up but at a later stage

We might all be interested in what the Electric Universe theory people might say about this but the post, and a video, can be found

At www.physorg.com/print245921695.html details of a modelling experiment has been written up in the December issue of Human Ecology - with some interesting results. Modelling is

Another gem at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 19th 2012, 'Stratopause Emissions' following close on the heels of his investigation of water vapour in the atmosphere. In this

This is meant to be tongue in cheek as it seems those dratted windmills don't like it too windy. Generally, they are switched off when

Contrary to some reports in the media the situation regards the bluestones is not cut and dried as far as human transportation is concerned. This

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110114434.htm there is a piece on deep sea vents in the Caribbean - with a difference (published in Nature Communications, January 10th). The vents,

A post at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 15th 'Outgoing vs Land vs Water Vapour' makes you wonder if it is all a hall of mirrors and the

HH Lamb on the Ice Age, from chapter 6 of 'Climate History and the Modern World' made some interesting points on the landscape and the

A rock from a mineral collection donated to a museum in Florence has an origin in the Koryan mountains in the Kamchatka peninsular. It was

This story can be found at a variety of places, and was also sent in by member Gary Gilligan ( www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337517/title/Planets_as_common_as_st...) but can also be

The actual idea of continental drift has never been accepted - what we have in the consensus theory of Plate Tectonics is something more subtle.

On January 7th Anthony Watts passed a significant milestone, the number of visits to his site reached 100,000,000 - yes, that was 100 million hits

You can now pick up a video or image of theSun on a weekly basis, just to see what it has been doing in the

Velikovsky gets a mention in a climate change post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/6/cosmos-and-consensus.html (see also the comments) not so much for his hypothesis but for the way

At www.physorg.com/print244918262.html ... there is a piece that describes how modern Plate Tectonics has migrated from the idea originally proposed by Alfred Wegener in the