In the News

At www.physorg.com/print201452152.html ... in the August issue of Icarus there is a paper claiming some 18,000 circular mounts have been mapped on Mars in a

At www.physorg.com/print201424073.html we have an image of a galactic volcano - erupting. Of course, it isn't a real volcano but it is likened to one

The story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817143818.htm and concerns a five thousand year old fossilised landscape beneath the Fens of what is now Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and the

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ August 19th (NASA newsletter) ... claims astronomers hav e devised a method to measure dark energy - the mysterious force purported to be

At http://calderup.wordpress.com August 18th .. Nigel Calder looks at very cold rubidium atoms combining together to make superatoms known as Bose-Einstein condensates. A team in

At www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localpress/marlow/8337839.print/ there is an update to a story posted a couple of weeks ago about a Roman villa complex found in a field at

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/1103-nwt081910.php is a news report on archaeological and maritime history. Tall waves and storm surges can destroy coastal archaeology so two Norwegian archaeologists have

At www.physorg.com/print201193905.html a press release from the Pacific NW National Laboratory outlines the current status of Fermilab's search for the Higgs Boson particle. Scientists have

At www.physorg.com/print201279930.html there is a report on a paper in Physcial Review Letters with some interesting discoveries, one of which is that high energy cosmic

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 17th ... there is a post on the impact crater discovered beneath the ice of Antarctica. At 500km across it is the biggest

At http://geology.com/press-release/obsidian-artifacts/ is a story with some potential for the future (and like the previous story is also available at Science Daily). Obsidian, or volcanic

At www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38729085/ns/technology_and_science-science/ there was a story going the rounds a week or so ago which I passed over at the time. However, for anyone interested,

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 16th .... 'Dark Attractors Believed to Shape the Universe' is the headline. The science community do not know what invisible or dark

A peculiar story is this one, and it was suitably published in Astrobiology as 'Supernovae and the Chirality of the amino acids' (but see www.liebertonline.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2009.0427?utum_source=io9+News

The Guardian August 17th (or view online at www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/17/france-archaeology/ a huge Roman town has been unearthed near Le Mans, and attention is being made to

There are two stories on Venus today and both are well worth keeping an eye out for updates. i) is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/17/jaxas-new-venusian-orbiter-may-answer-questions/ is all about

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100812065911.htm we have, 'NGC 4696: A Cosmic Question Mark'. It's all about a strange galaxy that curls around at one end like a great

At www.csmonitor.com August 16th there is news of a robot developed at Leeds University which is designed to penetrate deeper into the Great Pyramid at

Parts of South America may once have been below sea level, as recently as 10,000 years ago. There is a possibility of course that it

At http://notrickszone.com/2010/08/16/lebedev-physics- August 16th is a post gleaned from Ria Novosti the Russian news agency, which reported there were five clusters of sunspots on the