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NASAs newsletter, at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ July 29th says the mystery of dune patterns on Titan might have been solved. Dune patterns flow in the opposite direction

At www.physorg.com/print199363299.html ... in 1984 space pioneer Dr Robert Forward proposed a way of improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits. His critics

At www.physorg.com/print199550264.html we learn that a drilling team has reached bedrock in Greenland after 5 years of boring through 2.5km of solid ice. What they

At www.physorg.com/print199591806.html July 29th (see www.dailygalaxy.com July 30th) ... Wan-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological model that may bit observations of the

At www.dailygalaxy.com July 28th there are two interesting stories. The first concerns the claim the Milky Way is rich in small rocky earth like planets (with

Is this another important discovery - or rather, interpretation (see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls/ July 27th. The mystery is solved according to the headline - but is it?

At www.nature.com/news.2010/100728/full/news.2010.377.html there is a news report issued by Nature on attempts to date, both geologically and historically, a cache of Homo erectus fossils discovered

The Daily Star (of the Lebanon - not the red top with the big thingies) (see www.dailystar.com.lb July 28th) says a British Museum delegation to

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_release/2010-07/uof-adi072810.php there is a report from a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on the domestication of donkeys which claims mobile pastoral

The Guardian says archaeologists peeled back a thin layer of turf covering the henge which has miraculously escaped being ploughed up over the last 4,500

Go to http://cosmictusk.com/moon-to-earth-new-lro-lunar-crater-analysis-has-potential-to-revise-impact-frequency-for-terrafirma/ ... by comparing modern images of the surface of the moon with images collected by Apollo missions in the 1970s it has

Magnethydrodynamics is the subject of a web site at http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/mhd.htm which it is claimed is 'closely related' to plasma dynamics. It involves the dynamics of

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/27/space-quakes/ and www.physorg.com/print199554868.html 'Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth' (with video clip, on both sites). Researchers making use of NASAs five THEMIS imaging spacecraft have discovered what

We know the Romans had a big presence in South Wales as the Welsh inherited a number of loan words from Latin but the discovery

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100726144011.htm there is a new intepretation of the Banda Arc, a giant 1000km long 180 degree curve in eastern Indonesia which has never been

www.israelnationalnews.com July 26th ... press release by the Hebrew University. A Law Code with parallels to the Code of Hammurabi has been found written on

www.montrealgazette.com July 26th ... reports on Canadian excavations at Tell Tayinat in SE Anatolia (previously mentioned on In the News). This story is all about

http://cosmictusk.com July 25th ... reports on a National Geographic story about a fresh crater found in Egypt. The Kamil crater was initially identified during a

The Guardian July 24th .... a study of the remains of a woman who lived on Mexico's Caribbean coast in the early Holocene period is

The Independent July 24th ... David Keys reports on the latest find at Marden Henge near Devizes - the remains of dozens of pigs that