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NASA has created an interactive web based tool that incorporates observations from the past and present lunar missions that can be used to explore the

Also at www.space.com/11642-dark-matter-dark-energy-4-percent-universe-panek.html 'What is 96 per cent of the Universe made of? Astronomers don't know' ... Richard Panek says that all the stars, planets,

At www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/crab-flare.html ... the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a powerful series of flares coming from somewhere within the Crab Nebula - and provides

In the far north of Eurasia, at Byzovaya in the Ural Mountains, some kind of a Neanderthal mystery has emerged- and an explanation is hampered

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-13359242 11th May - the story says that a relook at pottery from excavations at the site of Glastonbury Abbey in the 1950s has

At www.physorg.com/print224335841.html - it seems the Big Bang did not produce carbon yet life is carbon based. Where did it come from? A supercomputer simulation

In a similar vein, at http://archaeology.about.com/od/aterms/a/Aztlan.htm?nl=1 the semi mythical homeland of the Aztecs, known as Aztlan, has been sought far and wide with the most

An interesting article at http://thecostaricanews.com/ancient-cultures-and-prehistoric-in-casta-ri... the Costa Rica News reports on some archaeological discoveries in their country, on the slopes of volcanoes - presumably being

The Daily Mail - see www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385290/North-America-populated-70-peop... claims that new genetic research suggests only about 70 humans crossed the Bering Strait at the end of the

For example, at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/caves-in-spain-y... there is a fascinating story about a Spanish cave that at some point during the Pleistocene became filled with soil, rocks,

Tree rings, including bristlecone pines, have been used by climate scientists as a useful took, claiming they show past temperatures. Mike Baillie, a dendrochronologist begs

Doomsaying is a noteable feature of the medical world - report after report telling us for instance that cholesterol was a bad thing as it

Alternative sky serpents include enhanced aurorae (as advocated by Rens van der Sliujs on www.mythopedia.com ) or comets (Clube and Napier used this idea in

At www.gks.uk.com/Apophis-Apep-Serpent/ there are some new images. Scroll down to near the bottom and you will see photographs of the Jet Stream overhead from a

This is a bit of a fanciful story but is based on a series of hard facts - interspersed with some speculation. For starters the

At www.themeaningofvedas.com is a web site set up by Ravindra Godbole after he wrote a book with the same name. This is excellent and falls

NASA (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-135?cid=release_2011-135 ) has issued a news release on Comet Elenin - and its progress from the outer reaches of space on its journey

At www.physorg.com/print223562554.html is a story derived from Universe Today, on cosmic scale magnetic fields     It notes that astronomers tend to button up when

An article in the New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04/language.html ) reports on research into Japanese language origins, tracing it the arrival of wet rice farmer

Katherine Cagen (Harvard) and Dallas Abbot (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York) 'Evidence for a tsunami generated by an impact event in the New