In the News

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122842.htm June 10th ... a connection has been made between La Nina sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean and drought in western

www.physorg.com/print195394956.html June 10th (see also Science Daily) ... comets may once have orbited other stars before becoming attached to our Sun according to a theory

www.culture24.org.uk June 11th ... Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre are putting on an exhibition of excavations that have taken place in the limestone gorge

www.physorg.com/print195306308.html June 9th ... for a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles

At www.physorg.com/print195297437.html ... NASA are closely watching the Sun as it begins to come alive. The concern is solar storms - or flares with the

At www.physorg.com/print195192885.html June 9th ... our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions on how nitrogen in the atmosphere reacts

At www.physorg.com/print195145467.html ... in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences it is being said that dust and pollen in the atmosphere causes higher

www.physorg.com/print195150398.html June 7th ... a paper in the June issue of the Astronomical Journal was written on completion of a census of visible quasars that

www.turkmenistan.ru/ June 8th ... Turkmenistan in Russia, excavations in the capital city Ashgabat have found there was a settlement there going back to the 6th

At www.thunderbolts.info one of the forum subjects concerns the discovery in the area of Lake Mungo and Lake Victoria in Australia of the bones of

The SIS Study Group meeting at Teddington in June 2010 revolved around a talk by SIS member Tony Haynes, with the title 'The Quantum Electro Dynamic

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100603091823.htm ... glaciers in Tibet were never much larger than they are now -  even at the height of the Ice Age and in spite

Again, at www.physorg.com/print19845886.html ... we are told the Yangtze River is 40 million years older than previously thought because a study of minerals by a team

At www.physorg.com/print194877369.html ... a Bok Globule is described as a dark cloud of dust and gas from which young stars form. They were originally discovered

See www.physorg.com/print194859447.html ... not really SIS material but interesting as it may have evolutionary implications. How did they learn to do it, for example, aand

At www.physorg.com/print194880259.html ... there is a story about the rare appearance of the cicada, an insect, in Iowa - that is supposed to appear at

At www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37497904/01/technology_and_science-space/print we learn that a rare Mars rock holds the clue to water on the red planet. The rock outcrop is rich in carbonite

See www.physorg.com/print194845088.html as Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Australia, was looking at Jupiter and witnessed a bright flash as an object struck Jupiter and

At www.physorg.com/print194798703.html ... we have a post on Walt Whitman, a poet who left in one of his collections, Leaves of Grass, a reference to

www.physorg.com/print194799255.html ... there is a fresh insight into the origin of planet earth, involving geochemical data. The surpising result is that earth did not fully