In the News

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

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/16/going-bananas-over-radiation/ there is a nice post from Anthony Watts on bananas containing radiation. Apparently, several foods are naturally radioactive and bananas in particular due

Significantly, the story comes from an amateur investigator, presumably a diver, (see www.ancientcanalbuilders.com ) who claims he has found unnatural features on the sea bed

At http://spaceweather.com we learn that satellites have detected the biggest solar flare in 5 years - produced from a giant sun spot (in reality a

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/14/pielk-sr-on-the-30-year-random-walk-in-surface-temperature-record/ ... this is a guest post by lukewarmer Roger Pielke Senior with an amusing title on a paper by Fraudrich, Kirk, Schubert and

National Geographic News February 10th, 2011, has a story on the discovery of rock art in Utah that depicts a mammoth (see www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004237.html ). The engraving was

At www.dailygalaxy.com Feb ruary 12th 2011, in the midst of several very outdated postings, is this one. A small asteroid, or large meteor, came within

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69712/title/Lucys_feet_were_made_for_walking/ ... the bones of a human foot curve upwards to form arches and this feature has been found in a 3.2 million year

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69615 we have three stories - one is on Titan's cirrus clouds as recorded by the Cassini spacecraft, another on massive starbirthing events as

At www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/ancient-aboriginal-eyes-were-on-the-skies/story-e6freuzr-122600054584  Ther story comes from the Daily Telegraph of February 5th and concerns a pattern of stones laid out on the ground in a

At Stone Pages January 31st ... a stone circle at Mzora in Morocco, 27km from Lixus, was known in Roman times as the Tomb of

At www.pasthorizons.com January 28th we have a story about a fox that was provided with its own grave as if it was a special member

This story can be found all over the internet, at www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/aaft-mhr02111.php and at www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/science/28africa.html?_r=3 and at www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69197/title/Hints_of_earlier_human_exit_from_africa/ and it all comes from a paper in the

At http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/24jan_solarsail/ there is a picture of the solar sail. NASAs Nano Sail-D satellite has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space age fabric 650 km