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A story at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13846262?print=true seems to indicate the first modern humans, the Gravettian culture, entered Europe from the Russian plains rather than through the Balkans.

Over at http://climateaudit.org/2011/06/22/pnas-reviews-preferential-standards-f... ... Steve McIntyre is critical not just at the ease at which the Team paper went through peer review at PNAS, in

It seems that elliptical galaxies are not spherical as once thought but disc shaped and resemble spiral galaxies. This result came from Atlas 3D and

An interesting story at www.physorg.com/print227783739.html where scientists working on genetic modification and improved seed research associated with the 'green revolution' in the hope of inventing

Atlas of Empires by Peter Davidson tells a tale of how and why the great empires of history flourished but inevitably fell and explains what

A story at www.physorg.com/print227772631.html ... scientists are taking samples of soil that formed up to 20,000 years ago to find out what was growing in

Over at www.gks.uk.com/egyptian-crowns-chaos/ there is an update

Amazingly, after the mess the AGW 'Team' got themselves into over the temperature hockey stick model, climate scientists have produced another progeny - this time

BBC News (see www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13753643?print=true ) on June 17th reported on archaeologists discovering an extensive field system and terraces cut for cultivation on Boreray, a small

Mercury isn't a bit like it was supposed to be. NASAs Messenger spacecraft shows craters on the planet that are deep and cold enought to

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/6/16/ideological-money-laundering.html ... this story is based on some muddling around and genuine research by Steve McIntyre over at www.climateaudit.org and a reaction to it

NASA has released preliminary information on its Deep Impact mission of November 2010 when a spacecraft flew near Comet Hartley2. It is a small cosmic

This story is at http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/16/black-hole-eats-star-producing... is actually what was drawn from the appearance of a bright flash of light observed on March 25th by a

At www,cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(08)0075-3 there is an abstract of an article in Current Biology on bat fatalities near wind turbines, and one of the causes is called

The Roman Warm Period that began in around 200BC and lasted until the 3rd century AD seems to have had an effect on tropical Africa

It seems the sceptic blogosphere is doing a bit of doomsaying of it's own over the last few days - latching on to a controversial

George Mason University scientists have discovered that giant magnetic ropes are the cause of solar storms. Jie Zheng and Xin Cheng used images from the

Recent AGW prognostications attempt to link every extreme weather event, volcano, or heat-wave - even out of season snow pack in North American mountains and

At www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=354&c=5 Piers Corbyn has a new set of dates for EQ or volcanic activity - between the 16th and 19th of June. Meanwhile, at

More information on the upcoming Electric Universe conference on July 6-9th in Maryland, the US of A. On the evening of the 7th it is