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Having a laugh. The amount of co2 emissions perpetrated by humans is falling every day it would seem. Dr Boris Smirnov, an atomic physicist and

Sent in by Jovan (as the earlier link to Sky and Telescope). Global warming caused by co2 levels reaching 2300 parts per million. Currently we

At www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/close-stellar-encounters-surge/#.... ... close stellar encounters. An analysis of our stellar neighbourhood is said to reveal more stellar traffic then recognised - stars that sideswipe

In Current World Archaeology 89 (June 2018) - www.world-archaeology.com ... there is an article on Iran's prehistory. It says the archaeology of Iran is dominated

Further updates on the Stonehenge landscape are outlined in Mike Haigh's 'archaeology review' in Northern Earth magazine 153 (June 2018) - see www.northernearth.co.uk ... It

British Archaeology magazine (May of 2018) has an interesting article by Mike Pitts. It concerns geophysics surveys around Stonehenge. The Hidden Landscape project and the

At https://phys.org/print446911328.html ... Does dark matter carry an electric charge is the headline - which turns out to be a bit of PR. Astronomers, it

At https://phys.org/print447061881.html ... it is 50 years since the last formation was discovered and defined in the Grand Canyon but now geologists have been having

Metal detectorists came across a quantity of Roman coins in a field between Exeter and Newton Abbot in Devon and this led to an archaoelogical

At https://phys.org/print446798161.html ... modelling works well when applied to for example, geology (rates of erosion etc) but how reliable is it when applied to the

Spaceflight is difficult. Blasting heavy cargoes and spacecraft to respectable speeds over interplanetary distances requires so much propellant to sent rockets to far away places

Scientists have struggled with a lingering question in geology. Why do the structures and elevations of some mountains continue to evolve long after the tectonic

At the link here the standard model of particle physics is discussed in an easy to understand manner - go to https://theconversation.com/the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-the-a... ... which begins,

This is a cracker NASA images of massive flares unleashed by the Sun. There is currently a lack of sunspots but the Sun is highly

The geology of Ayers Rock is interesting - see for example www.ayersrockresort.com.au/uluru-and-kata-tjuta/ ... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru ... but to get some really good pictures by a

Ice penetrating radar data in central Antartica has revealed valleys and mountains near the South Pole - see https://phys.org/print446450328.html .... and it seems the mountains

At https://phys.org/print446447917.html ... first seismic evidence for mantle exhumation at an ultra lsow spreading centre. Note the words ultra slow - which means barely negligible

At http://spaceweather.com (clink link to 24th May 2018) we have a tale of two stratospheres. Lunar eclipses are brief but they allow scientists to see

Sent in by Robert - an article by Brian J Ford in the magazine Spaceflight from way back in the 1960s when it cost just

Valles Marineris on Mars (see image below sent in by Michael) is 2500 miles long yet it is claimed it was carved out by water