In the News

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37869985 ... an ancient stone with concentric circles, one inside the other, has been unearthed in the Dublin area. The stone is thought to

At http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .... we learn that Curiosity Rover has come across an odd looking iron meteorite - the size of a golf ball. It is

At http://phys.org/print397315015.html ... humans settled in Australia around 50,000 years ago (and possibly even earlier). This applies to the interior outback as much as the

At http://phys.org/print397135082.html ... a team of researchers has presented a new model for the origins of Saturn's rings (see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103516305747 ... ). The lead

   At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/mount-st-helens-is-getting-weirder... ... geologists have been trying to understand how Mount St Helens works. It is a volcano of the Cascade Arc and one

At http://phys.org/news/2016-11-climate-low-hanging-fruit-ripe.html .... the traditional roast beef or lamb dinner is under threat - by hedge fund managers and CAGW alarmists. They have targeted fridge

At http://phys.org/print397199004.html ... the remains of a mammoth have been pulled out of a farm field in Michigan and is now residing in the university

At http://phys.org/print397131019.html ... and variously at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/new-theory-explains-how-the-m... ... and https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/01/new-model-explains-the-moons-weir... ... and all these are useful but the latter two come with comments. The operative

Here we go again - at http://notrickszone.com/2016/10/31/revealed-ipcc-adds-0-3c-of-phantom-wa... ... so that is how its done (some might say) - but others are more circumspect. What do

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/10/nasa-first-ever-solar-seismic-wave... ... the title says it all - NASA sees solar seismic waves travel up through layers of the Sun into it atmosphere. The

At http://phys.org/print396897323.html ... and http://phys.org/print396788543.html ... we learn that a fossil hunter in Sussex found a pebble of unusual dimensions and put it into his

At www.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/how-many-scientific-papers-just-arent-true/ ... the link is provided by Robert Farrar. It seems that Robert Horton, editor of the Lancet, is on record as saying 'that

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