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We haven't heard much lately about the Japanese Hayabasa probe which had the mission to rendevous with asteroid Itokawa back in 2005. It studied various

At http://phys.org/print386441561.html ... we learn that recent hyperthermal activity may explain the bright spots on the asteroid Ceres. This is interesting in as much as

At http://phys.org/print386346868.html ... life evolved three times faster after the extinction of the dinosaurs than it evolved in the preceding 80 million years. Is this

At http://phys.org/print386437614.html ... we return once again to the Hobbits. Anthropologists can't leave them alone. They were just three feet in height. Scientists have now

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/06/29/u-turn-scientists-at-pik-potsdam-inst... ... source of the story is the Daily Berliner newspaper. It seems the notorious ultra-warmists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/case-study/news/n0686-medieval-weapon-m... .. archaeologists chanced upon an ancient furnace after first spotting slag and clay on a roadside location. Two furnaces were subsequently unearthed, made

The water on Mars story is getting interesting. Is this another example of water as part of planetary make-up (even perhaps subterrranean water) (see post

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/37-000-year-old... ... the surprise being that the person was not related to Australian Aborigines. It has been the consensus view for some time that

This should perhaps be under physics but here goes with geology. The blog https://lhcrazyworld.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/moho-water/ ... is the home of Louis Hissink, a geologist (but something

Bees and electricity feature in this month's Thunderbolts videos - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/06/25/bees-and-electric-charge-electricity... ... but we also have the same subject but more nuanced at

We have an expanding universe, the possibility of an expanding earth, and expanding planets in deep space - and now we have the possibility that

The black hole concerned in this instance is at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, our very own. At http://phys.org/print385979471.html ... we are told

At http://phys.org/print385967844.html ... supercomputers on the trail of dark matter is the headline. At http://phys.org/print385996599.html ... earth's magnetic field in the past may have been

At http://phys.org/print385809691.html ... some fish have evolved the ability to live on land, such as blennies. One can see fish adapting in an environment of

Sugars in meteorites - go to http://phys.org/print385786331.html ... a paper published in PNAS (June 2016) has been looking at carbonaceous meteorites - so called chemical

A real life expanding planet has been found - who says an expanding earth is out of the question? Go to http://phys.org/print385792115.html ... Expanding planets

One feature of geology that seems to have become entrenched in recent years is the idea that during the Cretaceous era global warming was rampant.

More evidence of the dominance of water on our planet - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/scientists-glimpse... .... and the missing words to that are 'without water'. A study

Plate Tectonics wasn't always accepted without question. There was a time when some geologists were more than a trifle sceptical. A paper published in 1972

Not sure if this is biology or geology or physics but catastrophism seems to cover it. Robert Farrar sent in the link http://crev.info/2016/06/precambrian-protein/ ... with