In the News

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/irish-guide-to-the-first-mill... ... purports to show that C14 dates prior to 600AD are unreliable as a result of a cosmci event. The detail is missing

At http://phys.org/print379308179.html ... an interesting discovery. Ribose and related sugar molecules, the backbone of RNA, or ribonucleic acids, which are important in the coding of

At http://phys.org/print379344355.html ... ESAs Rosetta spacecraft beamed back data from the atmosphere, or coma of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko with evidence of a crystalline form of ice

Staying with Australia, at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/dna-study-suggests-... ... which is another effort to understand the origin of the dingo, a dog that some people see as bearing

A fascinating article from The Conversation but regurgitated at http://phys.org/print379231557.html ... Aborigines used the stars to compose a series of 'way points' (usually water-holes or

The environmental wonder boy and mischief maker Jared Diamond, author of The Third Chimpanzee, 'Guns Germs and Steel' and 'Collapse: How societies choose to fail

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/nasa-study-solves-two-mysteri... ... and at www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-global-warming-now-changing-earth-wobbles-180545... ... which in The Independent newspaper becomes a headline about global warming responsible for causing the spin axis of

Presumably Planet Nine is Planet X - without the nut job element (keeping academics safe in their leather chairs). At www.space.com/32478-is-mysterious-planet-nine-tugging-on-nasa-saturn-pro... ... astronomers seem to

At www.spaceweather.com April 7th and 8th 2016 ... we have news of a geomagnetic storm on April 7th - but with a difference. Although a

At www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/04/06/new-horizons-... ... the solar wind generates fast moving space particles and cosmic rays and these have been recorded in the vicinity of Pluto -

At www.yahoo.com/news/giant-mammoth-skull-discovered-bulldozer-operator-134... ... the skull of an Ice Age mammoth has been dug up by a bulldozer operator in Oklahoma. This is not your cold

At http://phys.org/print378966883.html ... Pluto's bladed terrain in 3D At http://phys.org/print378986225.html ... a mysterious radio burst that left an afterglow last February did not, it seems,

This is one of those odd postings, with the question being asked - is there more light and energy out there in space than astronomers

Tim Cullen has written some conspiracy like articles in respect of Heinsohn's amazing revision of AD chronology - and he followed this particular post with

This story has been long running. At first we had a denial by the Egyptian Antiquities people and Reeves came in for some flak and

Upper Mustang province in Nepal, between 400 and 650AD, was part and parcel of the silk road as silk has been found dating from that

A few weeks ago we had an article that associated loess formations with water - a river cutting a channel through the Tibetan Plateau and

Scientists are speculating as to why Earth has a magnetic field - and what generates it. At http://phys.org/print378630214.html ... the gravitational effects associated with the

The US NOVA TV site has been on the button once again by airing news of a probable new Viking settlement site discovered via satellite

Planet X is back in the news - as noted last week. However, some old proponents of Planet X have now had a say -