In the News

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

The Independent August 11th ... archaeologoists have found a house dating back 11,000 years ago, at Star Carr in North Yorkshire, constructed by Mesolithic hunter gatherers.

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 14th ... gamma rays were thought only to come from supernovae but amateur astronomers in Japan have changed that view. They imaged

http://cosmictusk.com August 13th ... George Howard has a couple of pictures of craters on the Gilf Kahir plateau in the Egyptian Sahara, near the border

At www.physorg.com/print200828132.html there is a report on a paper in Physical Review Letters 105, 057201 (2010) concerning the puzzle of electrons as they fractionalise into

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 11th ... Casey Kazan wonders why the prevailing Big Bang theory predicts all galaxies should be evenly distributed on the outer rims

At www.physorg.com/print200656127.html we have an interesting story about a shrinking glacier on a 16,000 feet high Indonesian mountain ridge that is disappearing - rapidly. The

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 10th ... Casey Kazan is winding people up again by questioning space time. Quoting a scientist from Berkely University in California, Peter

At www.dailygalaxy.com August 12th ... palaeontologist Bruce Leiberman suggests we should think about extraterrestrial events leading to higher rates of mutations in organisms and damage

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news August 11th ... astronomers have found giant loops of ultraviolet light in old galaxies which seem to have a second lease of life.

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news August 12th .... Titan, a moon of Saturn, ripples with mountains - but how did they form? On earth mountains form at plate

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article_1302449/Spectacular-northern-lights-dance-over-lakes-in-wake-of-solar-tsunami/ ... it seems the journalist is describing a solar flare, and presumably his analogy with a tsunami wave comes from the rapid advance

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810163456.htm a study published in Geology 2010: 38 (8), and a press release from Yale University, says the Gondwanaland supercontinent underwent a 60 degree

Some intriguing discoveries on Skellig Michael, the lump of rock in the Atlantic Ocean offshore of Kerry on which was built an early Christian monastery

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/08/barrow-tombs-of-prehistoric-europe-built-in-bursts/1 ... it seems new dating evidence suggests the megalithic long barrows and passage tombs were built in a burst of activity over a few

At www.redorbit.com August 12th ... there is a news release from Cardiff University saying that archaeologists may have to revise some of the details regarding

Median dynasty architectural remains have been found in Azerbaijan (see www.cais-soas.com/news/ August 11th) ... a joint US/ Azerbaijani team of archaeologists have found remains  dating to the

This was sent in by member Eric Aitchison after he had received the link from Bergen, one of the Chronology members. Bergen posted it in

This story was sent in by Gary Gilligan and is interesting as it represents the problem from an astro-physicist that believes dark energy is real

Archaeologists are examining a cache of talatat blocks stored in Luxor, some 62,000 of them. They have been locked away for some years and only