In the News

At http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/massive-anomaly-lurks-beneath-ice-in-antarc... ... this is the Big One - in more ways than one. It comes just as the Thunderbolts people are telling us craters

Fascinating post by Dr Wile at http://blog.drwile.com/?p=15423#more-15423 ... we have all succombed to the reasoning put abroad in the media and by earnest people in

Bone beds. What are they? It is rare to come across a complete dinosaur skeleton - or even a partial skeleton. These are what scientists

A liquid iron plume streaming from Earth's core has been likened to an internal jet stream. It is claimed that it is actually accelerating which

At www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.716368 ... many scholars think the Bible was consolidated by the end of the 5th century BC but almost no manuscripts from that period

At www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/newgrange-sun-trap-may-be-onl... ... where we are told the roof box or sun trap in the passage tomb of Newgrange may only be 50 or so

At this time of year we always get articles out there on the Christmas star or on the pagan roots of the festivities and this

At www.express.co.uk/news/weird/743609/Canada-Hudson-Bay-gravity-science-La... ... this story is weird in all kinds of ways - and so are some of the other stories at the same link.

At http://phys.org/print401623030.html ... archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society, along with Egyptian comrades, have discovered a wall dating back to

At http://phys.org/print401535144.html ... the generation of fusion energy utilises the fusion reaction that occurs inside a high temperature plasma. To do that plasma is confined

At http://phys.org/print401459494.html ... the Galapagos islands are home to some unusual plants and animals that show it must have been isolated from the mainland for

Sometimes the arguments are unintentionally funny. Others are incredibly out on a limb. CAGW alarmism is like that and this is one of the reasons

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/19/a-bad-day-for-younger-dryas-comet... ... is one of those headlines that seem to say the debate is over and the Younger Dryas boundary event did not involve

Robert Schoch is not a stranger to controversies. He was involved in the Sphinx affair, the claim it was constructed long prior to the conventional

At http://phys.org/print401090506.html ... the Rosetta spacecraft was landed on the surface of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in September and effectively brought the mission to an end. We

At http://phys.org/print401043545.html ... it seems the large asteroid Ceres has some evidence of ice. NASAs Dawn mission sent back images of a dark cratered rocky

The quest of NASA is to find water on Mars - and therefore to find evidence of life. Curiosity Rover has been analysing the ground

At http://phys.org/print400858229.html .... apparently, ocean bottom crust in the modern world is thinner than it was prior to the break up of the supercontinent of

This is the second time we have had a post on the Atacama desert in Chile. In this post we learn that the desert hosted

At www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4025054/Chinese-archaeologists-begin-ex... ... we have a story sent in by Gary. Chinese archaeologists begin to excavate a 2600 year old city wiped out by floods