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Most oceanic crust is thought to be no more than 200 million years of age. This is necessary if Plate Tectonics is a reality, the

At www.spaceweather.com (August 16th) (see menu on LH side of web page) ...      space lightning over China, August 13th, photographed by Phebe Pan. He

I think I did this story last week when it was doing the round of the blogs but here we go again courtesy of a

Not so much inside science I suppose but inside the heads of journalists and some scientists. At http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/perhaps-ancients-werent-s... ... sent in by William Thompson this

Jovan Kesic has come up trumps again. He provides the link to www.scientificamerican.com/article/yellowstone-s-supervolcano-gets-a-lid/ ... simmering beneath the hot springs and geysers it is claimed lurks

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/08/this-object-may-open-up-new-solar-system-... ... Pan STARRS survey of the solar system  has found a cosmic body on a strange orbit - it is way above the

   Looks like the squatting man image has turned up on a beach in Hawaii. At http://phys.org/print390114735.html ... the figure was etched into sandstone rock.

At http://phys.org/print390130975.html ... we are back on the Venus was once habitable computer simulation exclamation. At www.holoscience.com/wp/venus-isnt-our-twin/ ... we have Wal Thornhill's take on Venus

Again, another strange article from Scientific American - an attempt to bamboozle the conspiracy theorists and end of world doom mongers (that is sure to

Reference the post a couple of days ago on modelling that came up with a habitable Venus some 715 million years ago. Well, the full

This is a good one. It now seems you can so anything with computer simulation. At http://phys.org/print389947158.html ... modelling has shown Venus could have been

A nice piece of observation by a marine ecologist doing work for NOAA - evidence that humpback whales drive off orca pods attacking other marine

At http://phys.org/print390034843.html ... has a star cluster ruled out MACHOs - and put to bed the idea that black holes lurk in galactic halos? We

At http://phys.org/print390032709.html .... work on the M4/M5 junction just outside Bristol (south Gloucestershire) has revealed a couple of bone beds going back 200 million years

At http://phys.org/print390048755.html ... amongst the ash of numerous animal sacrifices on a mountain dedicated to Zeus in Greece has been found the skeleton of a

I don't suppose water fowl are too common in the Great Basin, although there are some lakes, relics of much larger bodies of water. The

At http://phys.org/print389866610.html ... evidence is mounting that neutrinos are the key to the universe's existence, according to a news release from Imperial College in London.

Two takes on the same discovery. The newspaper likes the Arthurian angle and dallies a bit - www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/king-arthur-castle-cornwa... ... and www.medievalhistories.com/luxury-tintagel-early-medieval-period/ ... the excavations in

Could every town have its own small nuclear reactor - see www.climatechangenews.com/2016/07/27/could-every-uk-town-have-a-small-nu... ... as an alternative strategy to building large and expensive nuclear plants such

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/population-boom... ... domesticated plants and animals are part of everyday life but they represent a unique change in the way of life of humans,