In the News

We have a paper just released telling us that a lack of oxygen in the oceans held back the beginnings of life, released today (see

NASA news at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-007&cid=release_2011-007 of a rocky planet one and a half the size of the earth - outside the solar system (see also www.nasa.gov/kepler

At Current Archaeology 250 January 2011 there is news of the discovery of a wooden door that has been dated by its tree rings to

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/68493 ... archaeologists in southern Croatia, the bottom of Dalmatia, have discovered farms going back nearly 6000 years - not too dissimilar to those

At www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-fermi-large-area-telescope-flares.html - the Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected two gamma-ray pulses coming from the Crab Nebula, fueled by more energetic particles. This has

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/11/2010/exploring-pella-bronze-age-temple-complex/ ... a fortified stone temple complex at Pella in the northern Jordan Valley has remained undisturbed since it was destroyed - allegedly in

This is a story to be found at www.physorg.com/print213449447.html, concerning the discovery that the 'oriental hornet' is able to convert energy from the Sun into

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/01/2011/the-towers-of-ras-al-khaimeh/ ... Ras al Khaimeh is one of the seven Emirates and has a long history of occupation. The archaeology in this piece is

A rather juvenile Guardian report of an archaeological discovery, invoking James Bond, is all about what has been found on the Thames foreshore - part of ongoing research

At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/say-goodbye-to-sunspots.html ... it is recognised that sun spot activity has declined - at the moment, in early January. The surface of the Sun is

This is one of those stories that I find fascinating, a man that has devoted a great deal of his spare time and holidays in

At www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Troy_at_Bergamo_by_John_Lascelles/ we have a post on John Lascelles whose book was reviewed by SIS a couple of years ago. Wikinfo was launched in 2003,

There is a lovely post at WattsUpWithThat today that I will write up tomorrow and add to this post - but looking at www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330 John

At www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?ald=4097 ... is a news release of a reappraisal of the timescale of Polynesian migration across the eastern Pacific via a study of 1400

At hgttp://geology.com/nasa/great-bahamas-bank/ .... there is a NASA image of the Great Bahama Bank as seen from space. It stretches from near the N American land

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/ January 3rd ... we learn that freezing weather is also affecting the tropics - in this instance, the high mountain zones of the

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/neanderthal-face-is-not-cold-adapted/ ... is based on a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution that contradicts the long held belief that the noses of Neanderthals

November 2010 November 4th ... Approaching Comet Hartley2 November 4th ... Mars - asteroid strike? ... gamma ray bubbles and a newly found neutrino November

The ESA and NASA mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has found its 2000th comet (see www.physorg.com/print212806556.html). SOHO was designed to monitor the Sun and

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/new-work-casts-doubt-on-out-of-africa-theory/ ... there is a report on the recent discovery of the remains of humans found at Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha'ayin in modern