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Mainstream is very fond of emphasizing migration Out of Africa but it seems there was also a bit of migration Into Africa - see http://phys.org/print383472524.html

At http://phys.org/print383580189.html ... the amino acid glycine was detected by the Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko according to a paper in Science Advances (May 2016).

The K/T boundary event (asteroid or comet whack) had a definite impact on the Antarctic according to http://phys.org/print383473445.html. Research published in Nature Communications (May 2016)

At http://phys.org/print383558171.html ... in 1242 the Mongol army was set to conquer central Europe when it mysteriously turned around and went back into Russia. A

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/28/solar-deniers-face-harsh-times-flurry... ... well there you have it. It's the Sun 'innit' - the big orb in the sky. It seems that climate scientists have

Sediments in the Bay of Naples have been explored and have revealed how the eruption of Vesuvius affected water supply and sewage/drainage systems - see

At http://phys.org/print383229114.html ... there is a fascinating piece of research from Greenland that will warm the cockles of somebody's heart. A history of snowfall is

At http://phys.org/print383382056.html ... science has been having a look at wild horses and how they survived the last Ice Age into the Holocene and the

At http://phys.org/print383372337.html ... women during the Corded Ware cultural period in central Europe may have been highly mobile it is being proposed - or swapped

  At https://anthropology.net/2016/05/27/neanderthal-the-interior-cave-decora... ... the broken stalagmite pieces (see yesterday) were assembled into two oval rings 176,000 years ago, we are told. Together with them

At http://phys.org/print383372275.html ... the mtDNA of a Phoenician (possibly a Cathaginian) living 2500 years ago has been sequenced. He had the genes of a rare

At www.postandcourier.com/20160521/160529887/topper-site-find-reveals-peopl... ... the Topper archaeological site has revealed evidence of fire going back 50,000 years agao - long before humans are thought to have

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3593219/North-sea-reveals-7-000-... ... we have another tract of ancient forest revealed off the eastern coast of Britain - once joined to the continent (in this

At http://phys.org/print383295806.html ... are mystery Mars plumes caused by space weather? Back in 2012 a cloud like plume was spotted high above the surface of

At http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-making-own-clouds-found-1746000... ... refers to a paper in Nature by CERN scientists and the subject is secondary particles. These were thought to be almost totally

The image below comes from www.spaceweather.com an excellent web site currently also doing noctilucent clouds with some nice images too.    an enormous swarm of

One example was forwarded by Bill Thompson - go to www.yahoo.com/news/climate-feedback-allows-scientists-correct-media-erro... ... but at http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/22/1959-paper-shows-most-warming-before-... ... wherein the title says it all. The first piece

At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-neanderthals-die-out-because-p... .... Neanderthals had bigger brains than we have and a similar tool repertoire to early modern humans so why did they die out?

Tim Cullen is at his very best at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/ian-plimer-not-for-the-greens/ ... and they are most unlikely to look at the link which has two videos of

Evidence of pre-Clovis occcupation of N America is now being found more and more often - which just goes to show how much was being