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The Sun is waking up according to NASA - see www.physorg.com/print199985777.html which  has an image of a filament of plasma blasted from the surface (plus

Are icy centaurs between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune a threat to the earth? is the headline of a piece by Casey Kazan at

At http://archaeology.about.com/od/artandarchitecture/a/atacama_glyph.htm there is a post on geoglyphs from the Atacama Desert in Chile, and how they were made. Geometric shapes are common, such as

Current World Archaeology 42 (August 2010) has some information that might be interesting (see the web site www.archaeology.co.uk ) such as the arrival of modern

Negritoes are a very obvious minority population element in various parts of SE Asia and the Pacific, and once lived in India (and still inhabit

Manchester University (at www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5997 ) it seems is about to publish new research set to overthrow the 'environmentalist propaganda' disseminated by Jared Diamond in his

The story of the discovery of a Roman period aqueduct built to transport water from underground sources - such as Solomon's Pool, the Pool of

The Independent July 30th ... harks back to the story of a hoard of 52,000 Roman coins found in a field near Frome. Almost 800

Looking at the index to In the News it is noticable that chronological matters have been in short supply - and yet SIS has over

At www.physorg.com?print199730102.html the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is described - and the objectives. This actually appears in an earlier posting but is not described in

www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61683/title/Dark-matter-eldorado/ a report online at arXiv.org that claims that a galaxy discovered in 2007, known as Segue's Galaxy, is composed almost entirely of dark matter (because very little can

At http://pgosselin.wordpress.com July 2010 ... is this the slowest melting July since AMSR-E satellite data was recorded (referring to summer ice melt). It has stopped

George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/space-com-zoe-macintosh-and-the-delusory-dr-pinter-another-confusing-half-truth-botch-job-on-the-YDB-hypothesis/ on a mounting number of critics who purposely skew the evidence to make it look awry. Sounds just like AGW resistance

2010 May 3rd ... The Science of Doom (new web site devoted to explaining the inner workings of the Greenhouse Gas Theory of Global Warming).

2009 December 8th ... Has the Tilt of Uranus been solved? December 8th ... Charge separation in space Decembeer 8th ... On the Perils and

Revision of history is rarely mentioned on In the News, mainly as it is a speculative subject. In addition, it is very often a personal

Along the coastline of South America there are a series of well known stranded beaches which indicate changes in sea level - or seismic shifts.

Another link to www.physorg.com/print199692636.html comments on geology in South America investigating the February 2010 earthquake in Chile. It ruptured a very long fault that follows

Apparently, samples can be extracted from fossil coral reef systems which can be used to assess sea levels and climate in the past. The process

Trevor Palmer has provided the response by Bob Porter on the Yahoo New Chronology Forum to the Science article on Bayesian C14 dating and its