In the News

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/living-fossil-may-up... ... a living fossil may upend a basic tent of evolutionary theory. Courtesy of a UC of San Franscisco research team. Natural selection, 

At https://notrickszone.com/2020/0/16/19-papers-published-in-2019-affirm-se... ... I could have posted this under geology but the link is to a climate sceptic site in Germany. The claim is that

Robert sent in this link too - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7890053/ ... which provides images from the recent eruption in the Phillippines. Robert says the gruesome images hint

at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/16/astronomers-reveal-interstellar-t... .. which comes with lots of very interesting comments. Astronomers reveal an interstellar thread of one of life's building blocks - phosphorus. It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-transparency-crystals-ultrahigh-piezoelect... ... ultra high piezo electricity in crystals causes them to become transparent - is this another feature of electricity in Earth and beyond

Robert sent in the link www.zerohedge.com/health/why-are-volcanoes-all-over-globe-suddenly-shoot... ...  why are volcanoes all over the world suddenly shooting giant clouds of ash miles into the air. Solar

Christopher Columbus, and other early settlers in the Caribbean, spoke about the indigenous islanders and described the Caribs as a fierce tribe that abducted women

An interesting study at https://phys.org/news/2020-01-counterclockwise-puzzle-early-neolithic-ho... ... Early Neolithic house plans in central and eastern Europe appear to display small changes in orientation and this has

Sent in by William and by Gary, and Robert as well. Ay www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7868821/ ... a crater has been uncovered that was left behind by what

The two links below were sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7870125/ ... Mars is losing water faster than previously thought we learn. This may effect

Tricky one this. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/discovery-of-17000-y... .... concerns the discovery of a Palaeolithic Venus figurine which is said to be 17,000 years old. It was unearthed

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7868431/ ... we have a rather misleading header - 'mysterious Viking inscription reveals they feared climate change'. As most of modern climate  change is

This story has been sent in by Gary - see www.newscientist.com/articles/2229021-mercurys-outer-layers-may-have-bee... ... and yes, it really does say the outer layers of Mercury may have

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/2500-year-old-scythi... ... a well preserved Scythian warrior grave was opened up by Polish archaeologists in Siberia. It comes from what is described as a

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html ... new evidence that a key assumption concerning the discovery of dark energy is faulty. We might even ask at this part if

This topic keeps on popping up in Creationist circles. Robert sent in the link to Dr Wile, a cool headed chap, but somebody certain that

Another icthyosaur skeleton has emerged - this time from a Somerset beach. A dog walker discovered the ancient fish in rocks that had eroded as

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/archaeologists-unear... ... archaeologists have unearthed what appears to be dwellings at Dewerstone and White Tor on Dartmoor - going back to the early to

At www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/20/earths-rotation-is-mysterious... ... back in 2017 we were told at Forbes that scientists think 2018 and 2019 might turn out to be years in which

At www.newscientist.com/article/2227146-ancient-monkey-painting-suggests-br... ... some see the Minoans as early forerunners of the Phoenicians but more importantly there was a three pronged trading by ship activity