In the News

At www.livescience.com/60944-ancient-fossil-forest-discovered-in-antarctica... ... a forest that seems to have been fossilised (growing wood turned to stone) at the end of Permian event has been discovered

Research in the Transantarctica Mountains has also thrown up another geological oddity - a pond with one of the saltiest bodies of water on the

The DAWN mission is still throwing up info - see https://phys.org/print429466672.html ... a study in Geophysical Research Letters analysed surface features on Ceres in order

At https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/how-green-deleg... ... which takes us to a an investigative journalist who discovered the current Global Warming conference in Bonn (but hosted by Fiji) uses

At https://phys.org/print429517702.html ... Hawaii sits at the end of a chain of volcanoes running across the Pacific ocean floor. In the middle of this chain

Researchers extracted cores from the Chicxulub crater recently - see www.livescience.com/56914-dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-punctured-earth... ... It measures 110 miles across (180km) and is situated in Mexico's Yucatan peninsular.

At www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/13/evidence-of-worlds-earliest-wine... ... the Guardian wine drinking metropolitan set are pleased to learn that clay pottery dating back 8000 years bear the tell tale traces

The newsletter of TeHPO (the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project) for 14th November 2017. Four senior members of TeHEP are attending the annual meeting of the

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/11/09/new-paper-most-modern-warming-includi... ... a new paper claims that two thirds of climate warming since 1750 is due to solar causes - not what the doom

Gary forwarded the first link and William the second (to the same story). See www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5062925/There-mysterious-geometr... ... and https://phys.org/print429354456.html ... unexpectedly high magnetic fields were identified

It is worth watching the Bob Johnson video on our home page as the title, 'The Source of the Sun's Electrical Activity' questions some of

These links were forwarded by Chris and Laurence - one at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171107092910.htm ... and the other at www.sciencealert.com/bronze-age-greek-sealstone-pylos-combat-griffin-war... ...   ... before and after cleaning.

Robert also forwarded this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5077063/Aerial-images-closest-ta... ... and https://www.livescience.com/60918-aerial-images-reveal-saudi-arabia-ston... ... the story was aired a few weeks ago on the News section. Hundreds of

Two videos you might like to watch - sent in by Gary and Robert. Lightning strikes over the US - spreading over several States. An

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