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At www.physorg.com/print241878655.html we learn that botanical researchers from Europe and China are looking at remote regions of China to try and discover plants, shrubs and

At www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/climate_tipping_points/ we learn that climate catastrophe is changing gear and slowing down - and this piece looks at the influence of Han Joachim Schellnhuber,

According to a paper in Astrophysics and Space Science by Dragan Hajdukovik contemporary physics has two cornerstones, namely General Relativity and the Standard Model of

One of the most controversial archaeological sites in North America is in the Mojave desert of California, in the low hills of the Calico Mountains.

An interesting story concerning Stonehenge and its environs has emerged - see for example www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52033 ... where it is said archaeologists from the University of

George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/climategate-2-0-540-ad-dust-veil-and-the-mike-bail... discusses an email in the cache from Mike Baillie, a reviewer of an article that was denying a cosmic connection in

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066156/Humans-mastered-deep-sea... is a case of jumping to conclusions. Whilst I have no problem with humans in boats 42,000 years ago actually catching big fish

Another batch of emails has been released that add to and provide clarity to those emails released in 2009 shortly before the Copenhagen 'climate' feasting

Lightning in space ... interesting post at www.physorg.com/print241098252.html which suggests the ESA/ NASA spacecraft orbitting around Saturn, the Cassini mission, should swing its cameras away

Are pulsars giant permanent magnets? is the question being asked at www.physorg.com/print241178052.html with an image of a jet of plasma being ejected from on of

David de Hilster, in 'The Neutrinos: Doomed from Inception'  published in the Proceedings of the NPA, College Park, MD 2011, begins by saying some scientists

Apart from skirmishing with a few subjects most of the session was taken up by Tony Haynes talking about the promising areas of research that

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/andrea-rossi-e-cat-megawatt-co... there is a post that covers a good deal of the ground e discussed at our recent Study Group get together in Willesden,

At www.robertschoch.com there is a pdf of an article on Gobekli Tepe he had published in the magazine, New Dawn (September 2010) - see www.newdawnmagazine.com.

At www.robertschoch.com there is a link to a pdf of an article he had published elsewhere, The Mysteries of Easter Island. Robert Schoch, wearing a

A recent Thunderbolts email update on the January 2012 conference in Las Vegas indulged in a spot of Doomsaying - was the Sun about to

Geoscientist Gerta Keller is extraordinarily consistent and has been a long time critic of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs - based on geological

A computer programme has come to the rescue of the reputation of Neanderthals - otherwise described as dull-witted and rather unpretty, with great big conks.

Neutrinos are rascally little devils according to Ask a Physicist at http://io9.com/5859576/whats-the-strangest-thing-about-neutrinos/ in reply to a query on why neutrino oscillations occur. At www.thunderbolts.info the

The consensus view is that loess, the fine grains of silt that have accumulated in different parts of the world but especially in great big