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No, not the mustang horse of the Old West, or a racy motor car. Mustang is a province of Nepal in the Himalayas where scientists

At http://wattsupwiththat.com there are two more separate pages added to the blog. Go to top of Menu bar and click on Reference Pages and a

At www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-ancient-cities-spring-marshes.html is a new theory on the Sumerian cities - presumably on the basis they did not originally require an irrigation system but that

This is the reconstructed face of Oetzi, the body that came to light as an Alpine glacier shrank. He lived around 3200BC (see http://news.discovery.com/archeology/otzi-face-reconstruction-110225.html )

At www.pasthorizons.com/indexx.php/archives/02/2010/archaeology-and-the-rock-art-of-the-california-interior/ all about the rock of the Chumash See below

NASA has released a video which can be seen at www.physorg.com/print217766695.html of the recent, Feb 14th/15th flyby of Comet Tempel1 by the Stardust spacecraft.

At www.physorg.com/print217764133.html .... huge blobs of plasma known as coronal mass ejections cause probems when they collide with the magnetosphere of the earth. They produce

At www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41721082/ns/technology_and_science-science/ .... scientists digging at the Grotto of Smoke in North Italy have found some intriguing evidence. There are a lot of Neanderthal bones

At www.culture24.org.uk Feb 22nd ... a report on a team of geologists searching for the origin of the blue stones at Stonehenge. The dolerite is

At http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/ ... if you never understood what the fuss was about in 'hiding the decline' in the Climategate emails read this piece by a

At http://cosmictusk.com/repeat-grondine-essay-on-collapse-of-roman-empire/ the url says it all, the end of the Roman Empire and the descent into a cold wet phase of northern European climate

At www.archnews.co.uk/feature/5322-researchers-map-out-ice-sheets-shrinking-during-ice-age/ ... the University of Sheffield has created a series of virtual maps to show how the ice sheet shrank at the end of

National Geographic News Feb 18th had a piece on exploration of underwater caves on the Yucatan peninsular where they have found some interesting objects (http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

At www.physorg.com/print217429744.html there is a report on a paper due to be published in Nature Geoscience, a news release by the University of Cambridge. It

At http://cosmictusk.com/6th-century-wasteland-secret-volcano-or-cosmic-interaction/ George Howard is adding the 6th century AD volcano or cosmic event to his web site - beginning with two articles which can

Various strange web sites have picked up on Comet Elenin and the faact that initially, its trajectory was at around 8 astronomical units (au) from

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/19/solar-forbush-decrease-in-progress/ ... a forbush decrease is apparently a rapid decrease in the observed cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection. It occurs as

See www.physorg.com/print217169841.html a giant planet bigger than Jupiter is lurking in the Oort Cloud, is the claim. Strangely the author quotes the dodgy science newspaper,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217091132.htm Lake Baikal, the worlds biggest lake, we learn is cold and deep and is giving up some of its secrets. A study in

SIS member JC Hanselman provided the following link, http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orbit=1 but wait for the Java applet to load (some security systems may reject this as a