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Gary sent in this link (aliens in the comments so beware). At www.seeker.com/atmosphere-microbes-microorganisms-balloon-life-venus-ext... ... we have a report on an experiment by students from the

Whilst the media was all lathered up yesterday an asteroid passed by the earth six times closer than the earth. Go to www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/asteroid-whizzing-by-earth-six-tiems-clos... ... good

If earth had rings, the title of a You Tube video. Moe Mandelkehr thought earth may well have had a temporary ring around it as

  ... this is a piece of art from a rock shelter in the Pyrenees which is thought to date back to 38,000 years ago

At http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,4128a3,taurids-can-be-a-sourc... ... Back in the 1990s David Asher of the Armagh Observatory studied the Taurids as part of his work on a doctorate. He

The Gobi desert is nowadays the second largest desert in the world and suffers from a drastic lack of rainfall. It wasn't always so. Go

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/27/at-any-scale/ ... we have further clarification on plasma behaviour which is useful as we lead up to our speaker meeting in April which will

Black holes again - clashing black holes (what is that all about) - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/25/black-wreckage/ ... which is a reference to the wreckage left behind

Homogenisation of temperature data is a sore point with climate sceptics as it air brushes out the warmth of the 1930s and the 1870s. In

    ... This chart is interesting not just for the periods of warmth but for the incidents of cold. The 8000 years ago event sticks

Trilobites look like ancient woodlice but they differ in that they lived in the sea and had soft parts. They go back 450 million years

At https://phys.org/print404637022.html ... isotopic similarities in material that formed the earth and the moon. Where did it all come from and when did they arrive?

Someone must be reading New Scientist on a regular basis as at http://crev.info/2017/01/secular-ocean-theory-evaporates/ ... they are once again blinking in the headlights according to the

A tale of two theories - both of them inadequate in their own ways. At https://phys.org/print404103492.html ... we have the claim humans wiped out Australian

At https://phys.org/print404556950.html ... Dansgaard-Oeschger events are sudden and dramatic episodes of warming that litter the last Ice Age period. They are thought to be associated

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/ancient-figures-re... ... Ghana had gold and slaves. It therefore became a magnet and attracted merchants from the other side of the Sahara. Whether this

At https://phys.org/print404473128.html ... the subject is cooking plant material in pots. Cooking leaves behind a residue that modern science can translate into what was being

This story is crawling all over the Internet this week and see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2017/article/archaeologists-... ... which is a bit of a non story as all they

Carl Sagan didn't always get an enthusiastic hearing in Velikovskian circles as he was prepared to publicly criticise some of his ideas. However, he didn't

Creation Science has a bright future according to Dr Wile - go to http://blog.drwile.com?p=15572 ... and the link concerns a recent panel event where a