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This one is going to get better - may be. The K2 comet (otherwise PANSTARRS comet) is currently beyond the orbit of Saturn but is

The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of visitors ( see https://phys.org/print426478631.html ... but little is known about the geology of the

Here is at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/the-atomic-comet-neutron-bombs/ ... Those of the opinion that the EU electric comet is the bees knees might like to read this post from

New book by Australian geologist Ian Plimer, 'The Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Ripoff' ... sure to zoom into the best selling lists.

Full Moon this week. In the old days the harvest moon allowed farmers to bring in their ripening crops even after sunset. Nowadays they have

Tom Whipple in The Times a couple of weeks ago had a piece on the flood of AD1014. I cut it out and came back

At https://phys.org/print425973790.html ... a huge solar storm doubled radiation levels on the surface of Mars - back in September. It was observed and recorded by

Bob Johnson is addressing the autumn speaker meeting at the weekend so it is opportune to look at his presentation at the EU Conference in

An article in Scientific American covers the same ground as a press release reported here a week or so ago - see www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-closing-in-on-the-dawn-of-... ... which

A study in the journal Science pots modern human origins in South Africa back to 300,000 years ago. The DNA from the remains of a

Sorghum is a native sub-Sahara grass that has been utilised for thousands  of years by hunter gatherers as well as farming communities. It emerged as

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