In the News

At http://phys.org/print387521718.html ... a new dwarf planet discovered beyond Neptune ....                                                                                                                                                   ....        while at http://phys.org/print387532425.html ... everything in the universe is spinning -

For three days the earth has been passing through a fast moving stream of solar wind. The result is this ...    ... fantastic aurora

At www.spaceweather.com (July 10th) we hear that Earth is currently insdie a single speed stream of solar wind flowing from an enormous hole in the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/weathering-of-rocks... .... we are told that during the Ordovician period the amount of co2 in the atmosphere was eight times greater than in the

At http://phys.org/print387182978.html ... the magnetosphere shields earth from the solar wind (or plasma injections) but at Earth's poles the field lines are open - like

Formerly known as Gla but apparently now Glas we have an article in the journal Popular Archaeology - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/rediscovering-a... ... where the site of

Give a day or two and they will give a bit. At http://vancouversun.com/news/national/aboriginal-anthropologist ... and I thought for a moment she was an archaeologist. It

Closing in is the term used in the link at http://phys.org/print387027245.html ... but is it just too hopeful? Closing in on black holes, a theory

At http://phys.org/print387113979.html ... we have the beating heart of the Crab Nebula ...    the Hubble space telescope has peered deeply into the Crab Nebual

At http://phys.org/print386924446.html ... the Hubble space telescope has been keeping tabs on an asteroid that behaves like a comet. The odd behaviour has been tracked

At http://phys.org/print386928085.html ... in 1966 J Tuzo Wilson published 'Did the Atlantic Close and Reopen?' in the journal Nature, introducing geologists to the idea continents

Scientists at Leeds University used computer modelling of the fossil record to work out the movements of dinosaurs. They used a palaeobiology database to work

Excellent post at http://phys.org/print386924983.html ... and the maths behind fractals, the phenomenon of fractals in nature, and we might add, fractals in art. If you

Gary Gilligan has updated his web site - see www.godkingscenario.com ... and you can also buy his book 'Extraterrestrial Sands' there online (and two other

Rachel Nuwer in Scientific American (July 2016) 'Solar Sleuths' - ancient documents record the Sun's activities prior to when the scientific record existed. The latter

The alternative geological journal New Concepts in Global Tectonics has some exciting stuff to read. The latest issue can be downloaded at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php and one

At http://phys.org/print386851767.html ... where did the two satellites of Mars come from, Phobos and Deimos. They were made famous by Velikovsky as the 'steeds of

At www.spaceweather.com (July 5th 2016) we are told, unlike Earth which has auroras in response to solar activity, Jupiter makes its own auroras, in part

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/a-6000-year-old-te... ... is archaeology with astronomy. It seems that archaeo-astronomers have been looking at megalithic tombs dating back as long ago as 4000BC and

At http://phys.org/print386572836.html ... NASAs Juno spacecraft has crossed the magnetosphere of Jupiter. There will be lots of images and data beamed back in coming weeks