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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

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 -