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An earth like orbit of an exoplanet has captured the science world. Jovan Kesic forwarded a link to an article in Scientific American - go

Jovan Kesic came up with a brilliant study of Hapgood's 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings' - I have probably read the conclusions elsewhere but

At http://phys.org/print393574680.html ... a giant algal bloom in the Southern Ocean may tell us something about how the chalk of southern England formed. Chalk is

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/researchers-find-new-natural-... ... we learn that in the late 1970s astronomers Vera Rubin and Albert Bosma independently found that spiral galaxies rotate at a nearly

At http://phys.org/print393744113.html ... researchers have used spinach in a novel way in order to take advantage of its interplay with sunlight to produce electricity. The

David Attenborough's recent TV programme that waltzed around the aquatic ape theory has been given a roasting in some quarters (at WattsUpWithThat for example). A

Dogs are an extremely useful as hunting companions of humans. They seem to be the difference between getting food on the plate and going empty

At http://phys.org/print393494658.html ... Japanese archaeologists have unearthed fish hooks on Okinawa dating from deep in the Late Glacial Maximum. It is know humans have been

At http://phys.org/print393496757.html ... a mammoth head complete with tusks has been unearthed in a canyon  on one of the Channel Islands (Channel Islands National Park,

At http://www.io9.gizmodo.com/what-if-dark-matter-were-actually-a-vast-elec... ... Steve Roescraft has self published a paper arguing that electrostatic forces could be preventing galaxies from flying apart. He contradicts mainstream by

At http://earthsky.org/space/pluto-paints-its-largest-moon-red ... Images of Chiron beamed back to earth showed the moon of Pluto was reddish in colour in its northern parts. There was

Wal Thornhill mentioned colliding words in the video played at the September 2016 speaker meeting, emphasizing that Velikovsky didn't say worlds collided (in spite of

This one is fascinating as it brings some obscure references in the Bible and Talmud to life. At www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/has-legendary-gem-sacre... ... It comes from Peter Mungo

   At https://eos.org/features/the-geomagnetic-blitz-of-september-1941 ... there is an image (see above) of aurora over Iowa way back in 1941. The geomagnetic storm built up over the

At http://phys.org/print393164363.html ... we learn that comets and meteors rotate and it seems this is one of the reasons why they break up so quickly

At http://phys.org/print393168215.html ... it seems the vestiges of lakes on Mars might not all be confined to a very early period of the solar system

At http://phys.org/print393166825.html ... a new study seems to contradict the tenant the composition of the earth should not differ too greatly from primitive chondrite meteorites.

At www.spaceweather.com (Sept 15th 2016) ... there is an upcoming harvest moon this weekend which will be accompanied by a shadow on the moon, the

It seems that even Yahoo (csn) news have picked up on the German sceptic blog No Tricks Zone as we are now told Kenneth Richard

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/09/13/massive-cover-up-exposed-285-papers-f... ... which all boils down to the activities of one of Wiki's self appointed mainstream patrollers of the internet, a certain self righteous