In the News

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

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