In the News

A fossil member of the Ranunculae flowering plant family, which includes buttercups, marsh marigolds and water crowfoot, among others, has been found in volcanic ash

At www.indystar.com/print/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12... ... a twelve year old maths whizzkid has worked out the universe could not have been formed by the Big Bang. Its all

At www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=4542566&sponsor= is a report on a huge midden of the Musqueam people who lived for generations on the estuary of what is now the

Some exciting science at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806?print=true ... GOCE, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, is onboard a satellite launched in 2009 and moves around

Sparked by the same article as my post on March 31st, EM Smith at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/where-did-the-grand-canyon-go/ asks an intriguing question. The aforesaid article says the Colorado

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330131306.htm scientists have been finding out why it is cold in NE America but not in NW Europe at the same latitude (a paper

At BBC News (see www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421 ) there is a story on early Christian writings found in a Jordanian cave which it is hoped will provide

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/03/2011/maya-farming-on-the-edge/ anad at www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=13335 the web site of the University of Cincinatti. Researchers have been trying to fathom why the Maya built their bustling

At http://geology.com/articles/age-of-the-grand-canyon.shtml is an article 'How Old is the Grand Canyon?' which describes some of the conventional thinking on how long it would take a

NASAs Messenger spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has returned the first image of the planet. Altogether some 360 + images have been

The Daily Telegraph of March 15th 2011 had a report on a National Geographic Channel film screened in the US and promoted by Professor Richard

In Current World Archaeology 46 April 2011 ... an article on the Mursi people of the Lower Omo Valley in SW Ethiopia, mention is made

The archaeology of the Alps, or more specifically in this instance a small part of the mountains as preserved in Ecrins National Park in France,

It seems Discovery News is catching up with the rest of the world as they have an article, 'God's Wife edited out of the Bible

At www.eurekalert.org March 26th there is mention of new discoveries in Texas that push known occupation of the Americas backwards - to 15,500 years ago.

Over at www.weatheraction.com Piers Corbyn is predicting some extreme weather or even an earthquake in the next few days - as a result of solar

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/71678/title/Go_east%2C_ancient-tool-... is a story about the discovery of stone tools in SE India that date back one million years ago - or longer (see

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/03/could-space-time-be-a-mirage-new-t... there is a story about gravity and relativity and variations as advanced by Peter Herova that eliminates dark matter and dark energy by

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/24/the-earths-biosphere-is-booming-da... ... global warming or not the earth's biosphere appears to be benefiting from increased C02 in the atmosphere - the earth is greening.

Two papers with a bearing on biology and evolution. One can be found at www.physorg.com/print220106627.html where a Mexican biochemist has decyphered part of the 'code