In the News

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,

This is the famous flood of the yellow emperor Yu that is being talked about, dating back to around 4000 years ago. It is mentioned

At http://crev.info/2016/08/fossil-dna-stuns-geologists/ ... the link is provided by Robert Farrar and concerns an open access paper in the journal Geology that documents the existence of

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-us-renewable-fuel-standar... ... is a bit of old fashioned investigative journalism by Marita Noon and Christine Lakatos. Those with special access (crony capitalists) and influence