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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

  ... this is a piece of art from a rock shelter in the Pyrenees which is thought to date back to 38,000 years ago

At http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,4128a3,taurids-can-be-a-sourc... ... Back in the 1990s David Asher of the Armagh Observatory studied the Taurids as part of his work on a doctorate. He

The Gobi desert is nowadays the second largest desert in the world and suffers from a drastic lack of rainfall. It wasn't always so. Go

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/27/at-any-scale/ ... we have further clarification on plasma behaviour which is useful as we lead up to our speaker meeting in April which will

Black holes again - clashing black holes (what is that all about) - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/25/black-wreckage/ ... which is a reference to the wreckage left behind

Homogenisation of temperature data is a sore point with climate sceptics as it air brushes out the warmth of the 1930s and the 1870s. In

    ... This chart is interesting not just for the periods of warmth but for the incidents of cold. The 8000 years ago event sticks

Trilobites look like ancient woodlice but they differ in that they lived in the sea and had soft parts. They go back 450 million years