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At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/can-houses-die-iro... ... From the Bronze Age to the Viking Age, roughly a period of almost 3000 years, burial mounds were sometimes placed on top

It seems Homo naledi remains may be much younger than previously assumed. Much as in very much. Instead of a couple of million years they

In 2014 two rings, separated by a gap, were discovered around Chariklo, the largest known of the Centaur objects orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune. It

At https://phys.org/print412490580.html ... an interesting link after Bob Johnson's talk at the SIS Spring Meeting on 29th April. The orbits of the planets are affected

The Tokomark ST40 fusion reactor is being developed in Oxfordshire. It hopes to be able to compete with the Americans and the Chinese, generating electricity

At https://phys.org/print412432801.html ... we learn that humans were in the Americas 115,000 years earlier than thought. This is roughly during the last interglacial episode. Where

At https://phys.org/print412240216.html ... it seems HH Lamb is haunting climate science again. At this link we are told the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) can shift,

At www.q-mag.org/meteorologists-explain-the-scream.html (see also https://phys.org/print412243519.html ) ... we have a post on Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, and a new interpretation of what it was he

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/04/new-nasa-discovery-our-sun-and-pla... ... (and see also https://phys.org/print412251784.html ) which informs us that new data from the Cassini mission and beamed back by Voyager spacecraft and

It's only a few days but the claim the Hobbit was a remote human ancestor related to Homo habilus is being questioned already - at

The Conversation is a news journal well known for publishing gobbledegook articles. It also publishes incisive articles too. I'm not sure what bracket this one

We already know that Otzi the iceman froze as he was engulfed in an Alpine mountain glacier - but at www.sciencenews.org/article/otzi-iceman-froze-death ... tells us that

Paul Homewood is the guy that authors https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/glacial-advance... age/ ... for example. In this post he relies heavily on HH Lamb's book, 'Climate, History, and

Poley Bears is more cuddly than your average polar bears which aren't averse to hunting humans when they feel peckish. A new post at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/23/sea-ice-off-newfoundland-thickest...

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/04/22/believe-it-global-warming-hiatus-real... ... so, the future is oriental. Western climate scientists are too firmly wedded to the theory of global warming and cannot accept that

Both William and Robert sent in the link to a story in the Daily Telegraph newspaper - see www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-co... ... researchers in the Engineering department

William sent in the link to https://phys.org/print411984420.html ... a digital online source enables interested parties to look at ten hillforts, and archaeological exploration and finds

Laurence sent in the link https://science.nasa.gov/news-articles/close-approach-comets/ ... which has a video of the close approach of comets. However, we also learn that in 2017 and

Laurence also sent in the link https://watchers.news/2017/03/23/birkeland-currents-stronger-in-the-nort... ... which is another discovery by ESAs Swarm Mission. It has discovered a seasonal variation of Birkeland currents

We've endured months of alarmism about dirty diesel fuel poisoning children living in big cities like London and Birmingham but now another dirty secret has