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It seems Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko (or Comet 67P in shorthand), the target of the ESA Rosetta Mission that dominated the astronomy news in 2015 is

The book, 'Sun, Weather, and Climate' (2005) by John R Herman and Richard A Goldberg is a reprint of a book originally published in 1978.

Gary sent in the link, www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/mars-volcano-earths-dinosaurs-went-ext... ... the word 'about' is as big as you want to make it - and here may lie an

Grasses have an ability to conserve water in their leaves. They can also absorb carbon dioxide without losing any water. Grasses are well equipped to

   ... winding waterways - captured from space. This example comes from Egypt. Physics and river flow - and fractals. The subject of a new

The good side of midges is explored at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170317132648.htm ... ecologists have been studying midges in Wisconsin and Iceland. There are 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin

The headline should be - rethinking some aspects of human evolution. At https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/accidental-tool-makers ... and I suppose the problem can be laid at Uniformitarian principles,

The Daily Express, a UK newspaper with a beef as far as the BBC are concerned, as the Express supports Brexit and the BBC is still

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/03/17/study-extensive-ice-cap-once-cove... ... South Georgia achieved fame in the 1970s when it became involved in the Falklands war. In this instance a paper in Nature

William sent in a link to a video of catastrophic moving water, some 2 million cubic metres spilling down towards the village of Chukhung in

Look at the links from the earlier post on Fossils (yesterday). At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308145343.htm ... we find the ancient fish fossil found in southern China probably

Upsetting Einstein's 'theory of gravity' is the headline at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/03/andromeda-once-flew-past-our-milky... ... This follows research at the University of St Andrews (and elsewhere in Europe as

On the same theme as the piece a few days ago on carbon dioxide, William sent the following link to a piece published in the

At https://phys.org/print408881453.html ... getting to the crust of the early earth is not easy as it has been overlain with a raft of later layers

Robert sent in the link, http://crev.info/2017/03/rethinking-fossils/ ... where we have more new fossil discoveries that appear to be counter to uniformitarianism. The first batch of

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/auroras-affect-sat-nav-system... ... This is an interesting one as aurora are produced when gas particles in the Earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles emitted from

At https://phys.org/print408702531.html ... we have a strange paper here - but useful in the sense it provides another dimension to what is normally pushed our

More on the feeding habits of black holes. This one is choking on the amount of material in its gullet - see https://phys.org/print408783134.html ... The

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4312926/Mysterious-space-object-... ... straight from the horses teeth, the source that Wikipedia refuses to accept as reliable. As they don't accept SIS as a serious

Wiki has a good piece on the Piora Oscillation, the official name for the period of global cooling that followed on from the 3200BC event.