In the News

http://www.washingtonpost.com AR20100226018 February 26th (Associated Press) ... according to sources in Beijing, China and Kenya are to corroborate in looking for Chinese ship wrecks from

  Discovery News at http://news.discovery.com archive February 15th, 'Meteorite crammed with millions of organic compounds' ... One of the Carbonaceous chondrites that Bill Napier alludes to

This is a newsflash to let members know that Eric Aitchison, who has published a number of articles in SIS journals, has an E Book which

Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex, WM Napier, Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University, available in PDF format for download to the general public but pending

www.physorg.com id186252841 February 25th ... Oceanography scientists from the University of Rhode Island have been looking at what it might be that generates huge underwater

Irish Times, February 25th (see www.irishtimes.com id1224265140601) ...a ring fort in Tipperary has been surveyed by archaeologists and they are suggesting it may have been

http://wattsupwiththat.com February 24th ... has a guest post that will interest members of the SIS. The subject is the Sun and an enormous magnetic filament

www.physorg.com id186161122 February 23rd ... some geologists think ice existed at the equator some 300 million years ago during the Palaeozoic (final stages) and research

www.physorg.com id 186089477 February 22nd ... the Little Ice Age apparently had an affect in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico according to research by

http://www.bernama.com February 23rd ... newly found archaeology in India has revealed traces of human activity before the huge Toba eruption at 74,000 years ago. In

www.physorg.com id186064617 February 22nd ... a special issue of Current Biology is devoted to human beginnings and how genetic evidence, along with archaeological and linguistic

New Scientist February 17th had an article on Chauvet Cave and it's Palaeolithic art (southern France). The most famous of the paintings is the group

See http://cosmictusk.com/nasa-mentions-dark-and-dead-comets-for-the-first-time-wise (or simply go to the menu on side bar of the web site) ... George Howard wonders if NASAs WISE mission which is

The Guardian and The Observer, soulmates in green politics, have a simlar choice of story regarding evolution of humanity. See online version at www.guardian.co.uk 21st

http://www.egypttoday.com (article id=8812) ... over the last 30 years Egyptian archaeologists hav e been able to use modern technology to clear up outstanding conumdrums and

www.thenational.ae - The National (Arab Emirates) ... has a piece on the period before monotheistic religions took root - an era of different gods with

Newsweek, February 19th have run an article on the enigmatic monument unearthed in SE Anatolia dating back to 9500BC - the very beginnings of the Holocene

www.physorg.com February 17th ... the southern limits of the permafrost zone, frozen ground, is now said to be 130km further north than it was 50

Science News Febnruary 17th (see http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id56425 ) ... new X Ray findings appear to blow a hole in the leading model for the origin of stellar

Science Daily February 17th ... a Nature Geoscience paper on the Carbon Cycle before humans has found that 100 million years ago there were large