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Give a day or two and they will give a bit. At http://vancouversun.com/news/national/aboriginal-anthropologist ... and I thought for a moment she was an archaeologist. It

Closing in is the term used in the link at http://phys.org/print387027245.html ... but is it just too hopeful? Closing in on black holes, a theory

At http://phys.org/print387113979.html ... we have the beating heart of the Crab Nebula ...    the Hubble space telescope has peered deeply into the Crab Nebual

At http://phys.org/print386924446.html ... the Hubble space telescope has been keeping tabs on an asteroid that behaves like a comet. The odd behaviour has been tracked

At http://phys.org/print386928085.html ... in 1966 J Tuzo Wilson published 'Did the Atlantic Close and Reopen?' in the journal Nature, introducing geologists to the idea continents

Scientists at Leeds University used computer modelling of the fossil record to work out the movements of dinosaurs. They used a palaeobiology database to work

Excellent post at http://phys.org/print386924983.html ... and the maths behind fractals, the phenomenon of fractals in nature, and we might add, fractals in art. If you

Gary Gilligan has updated his web site - see www.godkingscenario.com ... and you can also buy his book 'Extraterrestrial Sands' there online (and two other

Rachel Nuwer in Scientific American (July 2016) 'Solar Sleuths' - ancient documents record the Sun's activities prior to when the scientific record existed. The latter

The alternative geological journal New Concepts in Global Tectonics has some exciting stuff to read. The latest issue can be downloaded at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php and one

At http://phys.org/print386851767.html ... where did the two satellites of Mars come from, Phobos and Deimos. They were made famous by Velikovsky as the 'steeds of

At www.spaceweather.com (July 5th 2016) we are told, unlike Earth which has auroras in response to solar activity, Jupiter makes its own auroras, in part

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/a-6000-year-old-te... ... is archaeology with astronomy. It seems that archaeo-astronomers have been looking at megalithic tombs dating back as long ago as 4000BC and

At http://phys.org/print386572836.html ... NASAs Juno spacecraft has crossed the magnetosphere of Jupiter. There will be lots of images and data beamed back in coming weeks

At http://phys.org/print386572617.html ... Curiosity Rover has been looking at samples of sand and at sand dunes and presumably sandstones on Mars. A paper in the

A mainstream view of the ozone hole and a report on a study published in the journal Science this week - at http://earthsky.org/earth/antarctic-ozone-shows-signs-of-healing ... and

At http://phys.org/print386311403.html ... we have a new kind of 'clandestine' black hole. Basically, what has been detected is a source of radio noise At http://phys.org/print386434403.html

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