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At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/07/is-there-a-fundamental-flaw-in-our... is an interesting question - and it is all up for grabs. The bigger galaxies are supposed to form from a merger of

It seems that volcanic aerosols may be under-estimated when it comes to global temperatures. Research in France has just been published by PNAS (July 2011)

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2011/astronomical-observati... has a post about a very old controversy. Anyone that followed the debate in the pages of Kronos or SIS journals, on the

Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn, and colleagues, analysed the notion of dwarf galaxies, thousands of stars that orbit the Milky Way. These are

Sediments buried under 8 metres of sand and debris at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Greece are due to a tsunami it is alleged at

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/332171/title/FOR_KIDS_Tsunami_trek_t... ... it seems the earthquake in March 2011 that shook the sea floor 80 miles east of Japan and released a tsunami wave

Beneath an alpine meadow in the Colorado Rockies a huge fossil bed has been foudn - exactly how and when it was laid down is

I'm getting dizzy but it seems that a few days ago the Firestone et al hypothesis was on the ropes, even bent forwards on its

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-203&cid=release_2011-203 we learn that Cassini has taken images and sounds of electrical storms on Saturn - and one of them has been raging since

This time, a paper in Nature July 7th (see www.physorg.com/print229175772.html ) that claims not just push and pull at plate boundaries are responsible for tectonic

Musings from the Chiefio, July 4th 2011 (http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/why-does-the-sea-floor-move-in-s... ... EM Smith looks at consensus theory on sea floor spreading, mainly in the Pacific as he

It seems we have two climate scientists with the monicker of Michael Mann (but with different middle names). This emerged with the publication of a

As Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas have again come in for some high octane criticism from the doomsaying community as alarmist quarters scratch around waving

At http://cosmictusk.com/a-personal-essay-from-vance-holliday-on-the-clovis... is another nail in the coffin of the comet impace theory at the beginning of the Younger Dryas. It looks more and more

Spiegel Online 7th January 2011 (see www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771569,00.html ) reports on a Bronze Age burial mound at Leubingine where tree rings on wooden planks or beams

At www.physorg.com/print228659903.html we are told that zombie stars are the key to measuring dark energy. At www.physorg.com/print228643916.html we are informed there is a cosmic Axis

The July Maryland conference is being updated daily at the Thunderbolts web site - speakers and subjects are evolving and more information is forthcoming at

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/cygnus-x-1-a-black-hole-harvard-sm... is one of those posts where you wonder if the use of proof is a bit stretched, but never mind, apparently some people

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/nyu-fsh062811.php there is a report from PLoS One (online journal) on Homo erectus in Indonesia, widely regarded as a human ancestor as they resemble

At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/did-australian-aborigines-... there is a report on a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that claims Aborigines burnt old vegetation from the landscape in the hot