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Another Pluto image - this time of mountains. Pluto is believed to get its red tinge from tholim, found on the surface in molecular form.

Haven't looked at this blog before but an interesting point of view is expressed - go to https://risk-monger.com/2016/06/08/how-to-starve-africa-ask-the-european... ... and begins with the question, why

At http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/siberias-mystery-end-world-crater-formed-after-... .... we have a piece on that crater that mysteriously appeared in Siberia - triggered, it would seem, by an explosion of some

At http://phys.org/print384535030.html ... mammals were fairly common during the late dinosaur age, contrary to popular belief (or the consensus model as it was some years

That small sun spot has got bigger over the last day or two - see www.spaceweather.com June 10th ... and there is a possibility of

We have had a quiet Sun for a few days. However, today (thursday) a glimmer of a sun spot is visible on the face of

At http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2016/06/02/ancient-mayan-obse... ... researchers in Mexico have discovered a Maya observatory that was aligned to the Sun - and it was also aligned to track

At http://phys.org/print384080684.html ... we learn that during the Cretaceous period Antarctica was covered in rainforest and probably looked something like a virgin New Zealand environment,

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/indus-valley-civil... ... begins by telling us 'climate change' was probably not the sole reason for the collapse of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus-Chaggar-Hakra

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/new-cretaceous-fos... ... ants go back a long way - but they were not always social insects (although small groups of ants are known in

At http://phys.org/print383921447.html ... the subject is hydrothermal vents and methane seeps on the sea floor in various regions of the world. These have variously been

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/small-modular-nuclear-reactor... ... we are told. A thousand such small reactors could replace the necessity for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station the politicos

The theory of Henrik Svensmark, the seeding of clouds by cosmic rays, has been strengthened by the results of the CERN experiments (recently published) it

We have recently had the theory Planet 9 was a supernova fragment - now we have another hypothesis. At http://phys.org/print383894531.html ... a computer simulation at

In December of 2017 the near earth asteroid Phaethon will pass close to the orbit of the Earth (18 months from now) coming within 10

A hexagonal form of diamond later known as lonsdaleite was identifed for the first time inside or alongside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the

At http://phys.org/print384004404.html ... earth's magnetic field deflects solar radiation and allows life to thrive (or that is the theory). It is also supposed the core

At www.spaceweather.com (June 2nd 2016) we learn that on the 4th and 5th of June the Earth will say hello to a stream of solar

Geopulsation seems like a made up word with a made up hypothesis to boot. This concerns a book by RW Welch, 'The Roots of Cataclysm:Geopulsation

I love bumblebees, especialy in the spring, hovering around early flowers and blossoms. At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bumblebees-detect-flowers-electric-buz... ... it seems flowers generate a weak electric field and