In the News

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

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100603123207.htm genome analysis has probed Jewish genetics - or distinctly Jewish populations (see American Journal of Human Genetics June 2010). The idea is to

See www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602131346.htm ... if tectonic plates colliding cause volcanoes why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary? A study in Nature suggests that

It seems that almost every day astronomers are revealing more data about magnetic fields in space - which in the end must involve electricity in

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602193429.htm is a post on earthquakes triggering other earthquakes, causing clusters of them - which involves the synchronisation of faults in the crust. The synchronisation

Frontline, India's national magazine, has a beautiful article with lots of pictures that can be downloaded at www.flonnet.com/stories/20100618271206200.htm on the rise and fall of a

The Independent June 1st ... until last month there was no evidence of humans in Britain between 200,000 and 65,000 years ago - but that

At www.physorg.com/print194274365.html ... XMM Newton images of the emisson of the neutral iron flourescent line in molecular clouds around Sgr A taken between 2004 and