In the News

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37624943 ...archaeologists are suggesting that inspiration for the terracotta warriors in the Tomb of the First Emperor may have come from ancient Greece (and

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/13/study-extraterrestrial-impact-pre... ... which is a strange web site to find an article about comets striking earth (as they were less than sympathetic with the

At http://phys.org/print395482259.html ... when the Venus transit took place (Venus passing between Earth and the Sun) opportunities existed to get a better view of the

At http://phys.org/print395510984.html ... a study in October's Nature Communications (2016) by Chang Liu et al based on images of the sun by HINODE and other

At http://phys.org/print395475386.html ... giant rings around an exoplanet. At http://phys.org/print395479480.html ... a team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created a map of

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/ancient-human-footprints-afri... ... we learn of the discovery of footprints near the volcanic mountain the Maasai call the Mountain of God. They are preserved in

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/the-newest-weird-solar-systems-lonely-hot... ... when scientists began cataloguing exoplanets they compared them to solar system bodies. Hence we have terms such as hot Jupiters and super

According to scientists the universe is not rotating or being stretched in any particular direction - see http://earthsky.org/space/our-universe-has-no-direction ... we are told the cosmologic consensus

We would not expect mainstream to endorse the idea of a catastrophic flood in the Black Sea as envisaged by the two Americans, Ryan and

There is a new web site out there - www.cometresearchgroup.org dedicated to neo-catastrophism and the idea of comets and their offspring, meteor showers, playing a

At www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/previously-unknown-line... ... provides some new perspectives on the Cedar Forest, abode of the monster Humbaba. It was a noisy jungle, it is alleged, and

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/dione-may-be-saturns-third-moon-hiding-an... ... NASAs Cassini probe seems to show liquid water 20 miles deep on Saturn's moon, Dione (following on from its discovery on two

The psittacosauros was a small dinosaur dating back to the early Cretaceous (around 120 million years ago). See http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(16)30706-0 ... and for a response see

At http://phys.org/print394781614.html ... Russian palaeontologists investigating a mammoth graveyard in the Novosibirsk regions, recognised as one of the largest assemblages in Eurasia, were astounded at

At http://phys.org/print394791318.html ... a medieval motte and bailey (topped by a Norman castle) has turned out to be an iron age hill top enclosure. How

It gets tiresome reading about climate change and the constant barrage of propaganda that ignores anything published that contradicts the new religion of doomsaying. However,

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3824268/Mystery-missing-Earth-cr... ... (link provided by Gary Gilligan), an interesting article that can also be found at http://phys.org/print394869722.html ... in which University of Chicago geoscientists

Back in October 2014 The Guardian (www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/17/staffordshire-hoard-anglo-saxon-... ... the discovery of a hoard of metal in a Staffordshire field led to some forensic science behind

The first thought - is this a spoof? The second thought - why would people build tunnels? At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2022322/The-massive-European-net... ... it seems by stone age

This one is geology rather than catastrophism as a geologist is at the heart of the discovery. Channel 4 Had a TV programme about it