In the News

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/kepler-finds-scores-of-planets-around... ... NASAs Kepler Observatory has spotted lots of planets that orbit cool small stars - and they are the most common kind of

At http://phys.org/print396853238.html ... we are told researchers have worked out how planets like Jupiter form. Astronomers set up 'two theories' and then set about simulating

The cows farting story is still popular amongst the Green Blob (as absurd as it sounds to most everyone else). At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/26/methane-madness-the-battle-for-ou... ... (which is

At http://phys.org/print396594959.html ... modelling and statistical data have been used to explore how the colonisation of the Pacific islands took place and what role wind

The topography of the central Andes is the subject at http://phys.org/print396589441.html ... geologists have been investigating why so much uplift has occurred in that region

At http://phys.org/print396192585.html ...  a study of phytoplankton in the Oct 21st (2016) issue of Science claims that blooms of these small sea creatures and algae

   At http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0264-siberias-stone-idols/ ... it seems stone faces in Siberia underwent facial adjustments in the early Middle Ages as a result of new people moving

There was an excellent TV programme a few weeks ago featuring Alice Roberts and human history (the Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the arrival of modern humans

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-higgs-bison-mys... ... Ice Age artists depicted an unknown hybrid species of bison and cattle in great detail on cave walls around 15,000 years ago

You can see why scientists like to visualise dinosaurs as having had bird bones when you consider the remarkable feats of the frigate bird. Bird

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/chinese-archaeolog... ... a BBC television programme came out with the claim Greek sculpture directly influenced the rendition of the terracotta army in the tomb

At http://phys.org/print396196467.html ... a reed boat, the Viracocha III, is being built by Aymara Indians in Bolivia. American explorer Phil Buck claims Thor Heyerdahl was

At http://cphpost.dk/news/spectacular-archaeological-find-in-denmark.html ... we have a stone age map (one of several in fact) going back to the Neolithic in Denmark ...      ...

Perusing the summer 2016 newsletter of the Prehistoric Society (see www.prehistoricsociety.org) I came across the reason why and how the name of Doggerland was applied

At http://discovermagazine.com/2016/nov/mammoth-island ... the discovery of a mammoth tooth in a cave on St Paul's island, off the coast of Alaska (in the Bering Sea)

At www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/14/mayan-tombs-snake-kings-holmul-g... ...link provided by Gary Gilligan. The ancient ruins of Holmul in Guatemala date back to the 7th and 8th centuries AD and are

At www.godkingscenario.com/gks/tutankhamun-pectoral-gks-5 .... Gary Gilligan has continued to update his web site and has now incorporated the solar wind into an interpretation of the god

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