In the News

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/11/30/3080101.htm there is another story blaming humans for the demise of megafauna in Australia around 40,000 years ago. The paper was published in PNAS

At http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html ... this is a post going back to October 26th 1999 and is probably out of reach of a simple click. A skull

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101118093418.htm researchers have been studying a fossil that appears to be a direct link between an ancient lizard populating Africa and the famous Komodo

The European Space Agency (see www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8270WXGG_index_2.html and see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130122-35.htm ) has discovered a high altitude layer of sulphur dioxide via the Venus Express spacecraft.

At http://cosmictusk.com there is a report, published by the Royal Society, that says that some 4 years ago green fireballs streaked across the sky over

Anyone holidaying in Dorset might be aware that you can walk the undercliff from Lyme Regis to Axmouth in what is now a quite pleasant

At www.nature.com/news/2010/101105/full/news.2010.587.html we have the fruits of research by the Geological Research Association of America on Mayan agriculture. They lived in sprawling densely populated pockets

We can see that climate scientists prefer to dig a hole for themselves rather than address data adjustments openly and in good faith but such

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/65063/title/Central_dogma_of_genetics_maybe_not_so_central/ ... It seems the RNA molecules aren't always faithful reproductions of the genetic instructions contained within DNA, a new study has shown. This

At www.theage.com.au/national/3500yearold-axe-head-places-aborigine-ancestors-at-the-cutting-edge-of-technology/ November 6th ... a 35,000 year old axe fragment found in Arnhem Land in Australia is thought to be the oldest (so far)

At www.physorg.com/print208174658.html ... this is more on Come Hartley2 including the revelation that jets were outgassing from the sunward side, the night side, and along

A write-up of the talk given by David Salkeld will duly appear in SIS Workshop - but a couple of other points were also discussed.

At www.physorg.com/print207997095.html ... we are told geologists have a general idea of when major events occurred in earth history but precise dates for the sequence

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103141541.htm (see also http://news.yahoo/livescience/20101103/sc_livescience/atlantic ) there is a report on an article published this week in Nature which claims that during the Late Glacial

A rash of sites has news on the flyby of Comet Hartley2 on thursday 4th November. Images are being studied by scientists - but some

October 2010. October 2nd ... The Heliosphere October 2nd ... A Bahamas treasure-chest found in a hole ... a number of holes October 2nd ...

At www.physorg.com/print207909976.html ... the Deep Impact spacecraft has captured images of multiple jets emanating from the surface of comet Hartley2, switching on and off. The

Mars does not have much in the way of an atmosphere - or a magnetic field. It is being suggested its protective shield was switched

The mountains of Colorado are not recognised as a haunt of mammoth or mastodon - but they are digging them up at a reservoir near a

BBC News November 1st (see www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11669904 ) has a video of the Egyptian Book of the Dead - a sequence of pages of papyri that