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At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/dione-may-be-saturns-third-moon-hiding-an... ... NASAs Cassini probe seems to show liquid water 20 miles deep on Saturn's moon, Dione (following on from its discovery on two

The psittacosauros was a small dinosaur dating back to the early Cretaceous (around 120 million years ago). See http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(16)30706-0 ... and for a response see

At http://phys.org/print394781614.html ... Russian palaeontologists investigating a mammoth graveyard in the Novosibirsk regions, recognised as one of the largest assemblages in Eurasia, were astounded at

At http://phys.org/print394791318.html ... a medieval motte and bailey (topped by a Norman castle) has turned out to be an iron age hill top enclosure. How

It gets tiresome reading about climate change and the constant barrage of propaganda that ignores anything published that contradicts the new religion of doomsaying. However,

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3824268/Mystery-missing-Earth-cr... ... (link provided by Gary Gilligan), an interesting article that can also be found at http://phys.org/print394869722.html ... in which University of Chicago geoscientists

Back in October 2014 The Guardian (www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/17/staffordshire-hoard-anglo-saxon-... ... the discovery of a hoard of metal in a Staffordshire field led to some forensic science behind

The first thought - is this a spoof? The second thought - why would people build tunnels? At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2022322/The-massive-European-net... ... it seems by stone age

This one is geology rather than catastrophism as a geologist is at the heart of the discovery. Channel 4 Had a TV programme about it

An earth like orbit of an exoplanet has captured the science world. Jovan Kesic forwarded a link to an article in Scientific American - go

Jovan Kesic came up with a brilliant study of Hapgood's 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings' - I have probably read the conclusions elsewhere but

At http://phys.org/print393574680.html ... a giant algal bloom in the Southern Ocean may tell us something about how the chalk of southern England formed. Chalk is

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/researchers-find-new-natural-... ... we learn that in the late 1970s astronomers Vera Rubin and Albert Bosma independently found that spiral galaxies rotate at a nearly

At http://phys.org/print393744113.html ... researchers have used spinach in a novel way in order to take advantage of its interplay with sunlight to produce electricity. The

David Attenborough's recent TV programme that waltzed around the aquatic ape theory has been given a roasting in some quarters (at WattsUpWithThat for example). A

Dogs are an extremely useful as hunting companions of humans. They seem to be the difference between getting food on the plate and going empty

At http://phys.org/print393494658.html ... Japanese archaeologists have unearthed fish hooks on Okinawa dating from deep in the Late Glacial Maximum. It is know humans have been

At http://phys.org/print393496757.html ... a mammoth head complete with tusks has been unearthed in a canyon  on one of the Channel Islands (Channel Islands National Park,

At http://www.io9.gizmodo.com/what-if-dark-matter-were-actually-a-vast-elec... ... Steve Roescraft has self published a paper arguing that electrostatic forces could be preventing galaxies from flying apart. He contradicts mainstream by

At http://earthsky.org/space/pluto-paints-its-largest-moon-red ... Images of Chiron beamed back to earth showed the moon of Pluto was reddish in colour in its northern parts. There was