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At http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2017-archive/january/discovery-of-new-fos... ... the fossil loriciferan is so small it was thought to be fossilisable.    ... It is in fact a microfossil and was

At https://phys.org/print405251294.html ... Japanese researchers have been looking at a red spot on Pluto. It may have developed, they suggest, after a collision. It is

It seems that Baltic hunter gatherers took up farming in a piecemeal fashion and there is no evidence of admixture with migrants from Anatolia. It's

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170131104433.htm ... a paper by RB Hayes of North Carolina State University in Nuclear Technology (2017) claims there is a flaw in the radio-isotope

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/01/still-far-more-worrisome-than-glo... ... just noticed this one after visiting Anthony Watts place. Solar physicist Leif Svalgaard informed Anthony of the possibility of a Carrington style

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cow-carved-stone-paints-picture-of-e... ... we have a new image of the auroch with dots on an engraved stone in Palaeolithic Europe, roughly 38,000 years ago.   

At https://phys.org/print405174346.html ... ancient DNA reveals continuity between stone age and modern populations in East Asia. The DNA came from human remains found in a

After looking at (last week) the explanation for rapid bursts of x-rays and ultra violet light from the Electric Universe perspective (courtesy of Stephen Smith)

A new article at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2017/article/climate-change-... ... it has been increasingly shown that population numbers had already crashed prior to the arrival of Europeans. The latter

At www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/22608-new-finds-at-oldest-island... ... excavations at an ancient sanctuary on the Greek island of Keros have revealed it goes back at least to 3000BC. Colin Renfrew

At http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/the-mars-rover-found-a-meteorite-m... .... a video of an iron meteorite found by the Mars rover trundling over the surface of Mars At www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/the-milky-way-is-being-hurled-through-spa... ... another video.

Scientists sometimes don't do humour. Or at least the author of an article at 'The Conversation' displays a lack of humour - see https://phys.org/print405073075.html ...

At https://phys.org/print405078446.html ... the mechanism for photosynthesis existed in primeval microbes. Will this put an end to the idea of earth as a satellite of

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4178130/Researchers-dinosaur-bon... ... which concerns the discovery of a dinosaur rib bone in Yunnan Province in China that contained proteins inside the vascular canals (where

A https://phys.org/print405072203.html ... the Japanese moon orbiting spacecraft, Kaguya, has found evidence of oxygen from Earth's atmosphere ending up on the surface of the moon

The ice sheet on Antarctica formed at the boundary of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs which is dated at 34 million years ago on the

Nice picture of a beach in Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean and a popular holiday destination ...     ... links come from Gary

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