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See https://smithsonianmag.com/history/search-lost-hammer-led-largest-cache-... ... the story of how a lost hammer in a field led to the discovery of the Hoxne Hoard in Suffolk. The farmer

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/cheops-pyramid-... ... is there an iron throne in the newly discovered chamber of Cheops pyramid? This refers to the discovery by Japanese researchers of

At http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/12/mike-rowe-destroys-woman-who-wanted-hi... ... Funny old world. Apparently, if you do not studiously follow the mainstream in science you should be shut up and and sacked.

First of all, please note global warming has just got to the Sahara - see https://phys.org/print434971022.html ... global warming has just got to the Sahara

There were 485 scientific papers published in 2017 that support a sceptical position on climate alarmism. Is the climate consensus crumbling? See http://notrickszone.com/2018/01/04/485-scientific-papers-published-in-20... ... or

At https://phys.org/print434179901.html ... excavations at a site in Alaska have found genetic lines of early Native Americans that may have entered N America more than

Robert sent in the link https://crev.info/2018/01/official-saturns-rings-young/ ... from January 3rd. Cassini's experiment, the Cosmic Dust Analyser, has found the micrometeorite flux of Saturn's rings is

This is a New Scientist article - go to www.newscientist.com/articles/dn-18949-the-history-of-ice-on-earth.html ... which concerns the history of ice on Earth (according to mainstream theory). Again, another

At https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/plate-tectonics-the-hidden-key-to-... ... Cosmos is an Australian mainstream science magazine which often has interesting articles on a variety of subjects. In this one it provides

  ... images on the Daily Mail web site. Meanwhile, at https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/no-joke-during-record-cold-sp... ... and https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/co2-is-nearly-33-higher-and-t... ... while at http://notrickszone.com/2017/12/31/the-great-freeze-of-2017-setting-cold... ... which brings us back down

At https://astronomynow.com/2017/12/21/cosmic-filament-probes-our-galaxys-g... ... space telescopes aimed at the heart of the Milky Way, the thought to be location of a giant black hole, have discovered

Monsanto's Roundup bug killer is very popular with farmers as well as backyard gardeners. It has a recipe laden with glyphosate. As a result of

Robert sent in the link at https://astronomynow.com/2017/12/21/mars-and-earth-may-not-have-always-b... ... which tells us Mars and Earth may not always have been neighbours. Another dose of worlds in

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nearby-neutron-star-collision-could... ... a nearby neutron star collision could cause a catastrophe on earth - which begins with the collision of two neutron stars in

At www.astronomy.com/news/2017/12/oldest-fossil-ever-found# ... complex microbes found in rocks dated as early as 3.5 billion years ago imply life on earth began and evolved more quickly

The first full moon of 2018 is a supermoon. The extra brightness on January 1st and 2nd is expected to cause side effects - such

At https://phys.org/print433492885.html ... we have a somewhat long story about a State re-widening project in California that unearthed a lot of fossil animals - but

At http://spaceweather.com  24th December we have news of a sprawling coronal hole that has sent us a nice Christmas present - an auroral display. It

At https://phys.org/print433068635.html ... reports on the discovery from aerial photography and satellite images of the discovery of more than a thousand sites across eastern Syria

   This is an image of Habelia optata, a marine predator which feeded on trilobites (see https://phys.org/print433048787.html ). Geologists as well as palaeontologists have long