In the News

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/crocodile-bites-a... ... which is much as many have suspected. Cut marks on animal bones do not necessarily imply the use of stone and bone

There has been lots of talk about volcanoes beneath the West Antarctic peninsular and now we seem to have proof - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-291 ... as

I expect many thousands of people have enjoyed a pastie and a pint at the Square and Compass public house in Worth Matravers on the

William sent in this link to Nova films. This one is about Killer Floods - go to www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/killer-floods.html .. for the moment only a trailer

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/will-climate-change-controver... ... although the political story is interesting there is something else that may interest SIS members, a video of Benny Peiser talking to

Worlds in Collision becomes ever more popular with astrophysicists and astronomers and is basic to the gravitational wave theory currently getting a lot of attention

A 4600 year old step pyramid has just been uncovered in Egypt - see www.scientificamerican.com/article/4600-year-old-step-pyramid-uncovered-... (link provided by Jovan). It once stood 43 feet high,

Again, this is astrophysics rather than astronomy but never mind, its the universe. The claim is that scientists are one step closer to defining dark

At https://phys.org/print428727744.html ... Gravitational waves have allowed astrophysicists to confirm with greater precision what Einstein predicted in his Theory of General Relativity - that gravity

This is the big story this week - the discovery of a big void in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. See for example https://phys.org/print428839163.html ....

An amusing story sent in by Robert at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5040151/Why-70-mammoth-remains-c... ... it seems the feminists are providing a new way of doing science - looking at

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/energy-customers-foot-the-bil... .. yes, the headline reads, energy customers footing the bill for our failed climate policy - as perpetuated by the politico class steered

Also sent in by Robert - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5032129/The-mystery-of-Jupiter-s... ... Jupiter's intense southern and northern aurora pulses independently of each other according to UCL led research using

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171027085747.htm ... scientists still explain land features on Mars by water flow. Experiments seem to show that because of Mars thin atmosphere during warm

The radiation belts of Saturn and the Earth are both affected by the solar wind. Belts of energetic particles move around the planets at high

NASAs NuSTARR probes black hole jet mystery is the headline at JPL NASA News - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6986 ...Black holes famously eat lots of material. They

' David wrote - 'I couldn't believe my ears! On BBC radio 4 this morning (October 30th), just before the 9am news, I heard mention

Jovan sent in a couple of pieces from the journal Science as they may have a bearing on Alan de Queroz's 'The Monkey's Voyage' (2014).

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/the-atomic-comet-self-propell... ... seems like another one on the atomic comet - which begins with Velikovsky (and Venus ejected from Jupiter as a comet). It

Tim Cullen on Velikovsky. One to read. Go to https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/the-atomic-comet-electric-epi... ... it looks like this is the last one on this subject (comets) and in