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A nice cheerful press release at http://phys.org/print403337522.html .... the subject is bioclay, an invention that provokes plants into thinking they are being attacked by pests

At http://phys.org/print403288528.html ... some revelatory facts on how palaeontologists peg fossils on the Tree of Life that you commonly come across in museum displays and

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38561076 ... Japanese scientists have modelled the innards of the Earth and claim that silica exists as 5 per cent of the core. Whilst

A Near Earth Object passed close to the Earth on Monday morning. It was the size of a ten story building but it wasn't noticed

This story comes from www.scientificamerican.com/article/cold-fusion-lives-experiments-create-... ... which is a source hardly likely to be full on keen on cold fusion. It was dismissed as junk

This article at Thunderbolts was inspired by the news over Christmas that earth has a liquid iron jet stream as revealed by ESAs Swarm mission

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/11/large-ice-sheet-discovered-on-mars?/ ... which appears to be a large area of ice and rocks and very deep. At www.q-mag.org/boom-star-visible-in-2022.html ... we are told a collision

It is thought ocean acidification might become the next doom mongering scare story if CAGW is 'Trumped' in the coming months. It might be useful

nAt www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/21698-minoan-civilization-capital-knosso... ... contrary to what most people think, that Knossos was severely affected by the Thera volcano and limped on towards the end of

At http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/massive-anomaly-lurks-beneath-ice-in-antarc... ... this is the Big One - in more ways than one. It comes just as the Thunderbolts people are telling us craters

Fascinating post by Dr Wile at http://blog.drwile.com/?p=15423#more-15423 ... we have all succombed to the reasoning put abroad in the media and by earnest people in

Bone beds. What are they? It is rare to come across a complete dinosaur skeleton - or even a partial skeleton. These are what scientists

A liquid iron plume streaming from Earth's core has been likened to an internal jet stream. It is claimed that it is actually accelerating which

At www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.716368 ... many scholars think the Bible was consolidated by the end of the 5th century BC but almost no manuscripts from that period

At www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/newgrange-sun-trap-may-be-onl... ... where we are told the roof box or sun trap in the passage tomb of Newgrange may only be 50 or so

At this time of year we always get articles out there on the Christmas star or on the pagan roots of the festivities and this

At www.express.co.uk/news/weird/743609/Canada-Hudson-Bay-gravity-science-La... ... this story is weird in all kinds of ways - and so are some of the other stories at the same link.

At http://phys.org/print401623030.html ... archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society, along with Egyptian comrades, have discovered a wall dating back to

At http://phys.org/print401535144.html ... the generation of fusion energy utilises the fusion reaction that occurs inside a high temperature plasma. To do that plasma is confined

At http://phys.org/print401459494.html ... the Galapagos islands are home to some unusual plants and animals that show it must have been isolated from the mainland for