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See www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-0912cid=release_2011-091 and www.space.com/11205-saturn-strange-radio-signals-cassini.html for some perplexing signals from Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft has revealed a variaton in radio-waves as a result of the planet's

At www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8398320/Jatropha-biofuel-produces-si... March 22nd. The headline says it all - this particular biofuel creates more C02 than burning coal or oil. Third world countries are

There is a lovely post at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/22/does-solar-activity-have-to-keep-g... ... basically, it has been assumed that solar activity was not trending upwards, a situation endlessly trotted out

The  story is at http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-age-crater-found-in-canada-that-makes-three/ ... unaware of the first two it now seems this one makes three - two underwater and one in a

At www.physorg.com/print219842545.html there is a story, 'Chasma Boreale, Mars' with an image supplied by NASA. The chasm is a long flat floored valley that cuts

A paper published by the Annales Geophyscae 27 (2009) (see www.ann-geophys.net/27/185/2009 or www.ann-geophys.net/27/185/2009/angeo-27-185-2009.pdf ) is about the connections between sun spots and geomagnetic storms. At

Although this story was flying around the blogosphere a few weeks ago it never reached much of a drama - and it is still quite

This story is at www.dailygalaxy.com March 17th ... and concerns weird flying saucer shaped moons in the rings of Saturn that have intrigued astronomers after

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070419145346.htm we have an old story, but one that is interesting never the less. Irish stoats, it has been found from DNA evidence, survived

At www.physorg.com/print219594362.html ... a buried forest was discovered after wood was found on the ground near a glacier. Earth scientist Joel Barker spotted some wood

The mystery of what happened to the Roman Ninth Legion has exercised historians minds for a long  time. Now, shortly before the release of a

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/71291/title/Cave_formations_record_B... ... stalagmites in a cave in Turkey not far away from the Black Sea coastline contain a record of 19 flooding events -

A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on March 14th has an interesting article on fire use by early humans

A couple of doomsayings - or what might be called some mischief making from environmentalists. Apparently, an ozone hole has developed this week over the

The March 19th Full Moon is being mooted as potentially dangerous as the Moon is slight closer on average than it normal orbit - and

At www.physorg.com/print219060207.html we learn that astronomers are keeping tabs on asteroid Apophis as it approaches a close encounter with the earth in 2029. The position

At http://spaceweather.com March 12th, it is said it is just a coincidence that the earthquake in Japan coincided with a geomagnetic storm - in case

Ever wondered what lives on the bottom of the ocean - or in the bottom waters? A catalogue of deep sea life forms can be

Current Archaeology April 2011 ... has a report on the discovery of a Neolithic chambered tomb on South Ronaldsway in the Orkneys that was quarried

As long suspected by some people there was already a long distance road system in Britain before the arrival of the Romans. The latter was