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Plant mutations
9 February 2010 > Evolutionwww.physorg.com January 4th ... the speed of mutations in plants has been monitored for the first time and findings shed light on the evolutionary process.
The hole in the crust
9 February 2010 > GeologyDaily Galaxy December 27th 2009 ... in 2005 an Ethiopian volcano erupted and in the process a 35 mile rift in the landscape was created
Pleistocene
9 February 2010 > Geologywww.physorg.com January 12th ... the Black Mesa basin in Arizona has underground aquifers created by seepage through the overlying geology. The water contains gases that
Current Archaeology 239 February 2010
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologySeveral items are worth repeating to the wider world. The Clovis culture people are blamed for the extinction of mammoths in North America according to
Extra-terrestrial geology from several sources
9 February 2010 > Geologyhttp://atlas-conferences.com/c/a/j/i/26.htm claims that cosmic activity has been detected in raised bogs in NW Europe and in Siberia (at Tunguska). These traces appear to correspond to episodes
Punt
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Boston Globe (online version), January 11th ... the discovery publicised a couple of years ago of the find in a cave at the mouth of the Wadi Gawasis
Big Heads
9 February 2010 > Evolutionhttp://discovermagazine.com December 28th 2009 ... the cranial capacity of Boskop skulls found in South Africa in the early 20th century are the subject of this article
Semi-conductors
9 February 2010 > Physicswww.phyorg.com February 5th ... research on semi-conductors caught in the act electrons forming complex patterns, resembling those seen in turbulent fluids. This is said to
Stonehenge Hedge
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Guardian February 4th ... Stonehenge is revealing more secrets. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the Great Stonehenge Hedge. Apparently, around 2000BC (a date that
Smoke and Fire
9 February 2010 > BiologyScience Daily ... a paper in Journal of Natural Products claims fire and smoke play a significant role in the rebirth and regeneration of forest
Biological Enigmas
4 February 2010 > BiologyScience Daily, November 20th 2009 ... palaeobiological researchers have found evidence that during mass extinction events that punctuate the history of life, open ocean marine
Evolutionary Enigmas
4 February 2010 > EvolutionRancho La Brea tar pits ... these are found in the heart of Los Angeles and are a rich source of fossils - over 565
Physics and Cosmology
4 February 2010 > Physicswww.physorg.com January 28th ... One goal of the Large Hadron Collider is to find the Higgs boson, the only particle in the standard model that
Catastrophic Scenarios (real or imagined)
4 February 2010 > CatastrophismScience Daily January 27th ... the Neanderthals are now said to have died out in Iberia 37,000 years ago, coinciding with dramatic changes in climate
Earth Science Stories
4 February 2010 > GeologyScience Daily, January 21st ... the Kimmeridge Clay deposit is a well known geological formation that runs across middle England - only surfacing at a
Space Anomalies
4 February 2010 > ElectromagnetismScience Daily January 20th ... MIT professor Richard Binzel has examined what influence Earth might have on asteroids - which appear to be substantial. He
Chronological Matters
4 February 2010 > Ancient historyBiblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early History, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature: 2009 ... an in-depth study of
Anthropology
4 February 2010 > AnthropologyThe Guardian January 22nd ... Israel is to fund a genetic study to determine if there is a link between the lost tribes of Israel
Astronomy and Space
4 February 2010 > AstronomyUniversity of Buffalo News June 11th 2002 ... this is interesting though an old post. Research has squeezed evidence out of ice cores to show
Douglas Keenan
4 February 2010 > Climate changewww.informath.org ... the on-running web site of Dougls Keenan has some interesting articles including one on C14 dating and tree rings. Douglas Keenan has also