In the News

At https://cycliccatastrophism.org/2017/09/28/juno-jupiter-news/ ... I don't know anything about this web site although I notice they support the Velikovskian idea of errant planets - Mars, Venus,

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/28/catastrophic-sea-level-rise-in-th... ... did rapid sea level change drown fossil coral reefs around Hawaii? Recent discoveries suggest there have been episodes of very rapid sea

Chris Gatling in Current World Archaeology 85 (October 2017) www.world-archaeology.com ... page 85 ... looks at human DNA mutation. People argued that modern humans evolved

The sun spot which spewed out CMEs towards the Earth a couple of weeks ago has been going round, and round. It is still there

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/climate-change-predictions-wh... .... reports on a piece by Nigel Hawkins in The Sunday Times concerning the Nature Geoscience article (see earlier post). This admitted the

At https://phys.org/print425196231.html ... DNA from sub-Sahara Africa has opened a window on prehistoric population movements over the past 8000 years. However, the results are not

At https://watchers.news/2015/06/09/cosmic-solar-radiation-as-the-cause-of-... ... this article is a couple of years old but interesting in respect of the recent Mexico earthquakes as we are in solar

Wallacea, between the SE Asia and Australia plates, consists of a number of mainly small islands, such as Sumba, Flores, Komodo, and Gili Matoy etc.

Sent in by William. At https://phys.org/print425205777.html ... going back to 2014, when Comet Siding Spring passed within 140,000 miles from Mars, one third of the

Don Scott on Electric Jupiter - see the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pitwnMK-RxU&feature-youtu.be ... you can also get a global rebroadcast of EU 2016 and EU207 conferences

A paper in Nature Geoscience has sparked fun and games in the climate science fraternity. Various tabloid newspapers have enjoyed using it to show climate

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/60-ancient-shipwre... ... some sixty ancient ship wrecks have been discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea - including galleys from the Roman empire

At www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/19/medieval-porpoise-grave-on-chann... ... archaeologists digging on Chapelle Dom Hue off the coast of Guernsey found a grave - of a porpoise. The island was used

An article in New Scientist (26th August 2017) by Colin Barras, p 22-33. said, 'the story of human origins is being re-written. The past 15

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/solving-easter-isl... ... Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, have been a mystery ever since Europeans first landed there in 1722. Early visitors estimated the p[opulation

At http://spaceweather.com September 21st 2017 we learn that NASA OSIRIS REx spacecraft is due to fly past Earth on the 22nd, sling shotting itself towards

At https://phys.org/print425033494.html ... in the first paragraph we learn the Mackenzie Trough westwards, including the Yukon part of the continental shelf system, is being researched

This is the first of two posts on Easter Island. At http://www.scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,459670,polish-researcher-... ... the rongorongo writing on Easter Island is thought to be a fairly

At https://phys.org/print425034601.html ... the Hershel Space Observatory has traced the present of water in space. The water molecule is present in star forming molecular clouds

This link has been sent in by both William and Gary. At https://phys.org/print424941552.html ... a paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters