In the News

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

At www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institute/hobbits-disappeared-much-ea... ... after all the fuss over the Hobbit fossils has died down we now have a revised age for them - but courtesy

The Greenland ice sheet as seen from NASAs G-111 aircraft, taken from 40,000 feet in altitude The ice sheets of the world are being mapped

An unusual source has broken into the CAGW debate with a diatribe against unmentioned hedge fund managers (better left unmentioned as they have big bucks

Drumlin hills, shaped like upturned boats, are an Ice Age land form, well known in geology. However, the use of satellite images and LiDAR (ground

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/land-bridges-linkin... ... where we have an exercise based on an assumption. This is that India was once an island that was formerly attached to

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/teeth-from-natu... ... and the same story has been at PhysOrg and Science Daily. Gazelles were a prized part of the diet of Natufian hunter

I'm not sure why sequence stratigraphy is being questioned but anything that challenges the neat layer cake method is worth taking note of. The link

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/when-vineyards-bloo... ... which takes us back to the 7th century AD and the Christian kingdom of Mukaria (which existed as a rival kingdom to

At www.cnet.com/news/see-something-smash-into-jupiter-causing-an-explosion-... .... where you can access a video of a comet or asteroid striking the gas giant Jupiter. Even Phil Plait acknowledges an 'actual

Ian Botham, nickname Beefy, famous for routing an Aussie cricket team virtually single handedly in one day of a Test Match in the 1980s, using

The March comet is in the news - at http://phys.org/print378114038.html ... http://phys.org/print378112389.html ... and http://phys.org/print378112444.html ... but there is little to report. Both sections sailed

  ... the Bisti Badlands are located in New Mexico. At www.smithsonianmagazine.com/travel/these-massive-rock-formations-look-ju... ... we learn the Badlands have pillars of eroded sandstone rock and weird

Stephen Oppenheimer has written at least three very controversial books - and they all involve genetics (and his version of genetic interpretation). In this instance

At http://phys.org/print378052215.html ... we are told that some of the moons of Saturn, such as Rhea, may in fact be just 100 million years old.

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/23/modelling-gravitational-waves/ ... NASA tells you how to create a model to demonstrate gravitational waves travelling through space time using gelatin, marbles, a mirror and

At www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/03/22/pluto-may-hav... .... we learn that NASA scientists are still puzzling over Pluto - and data is still arriving from the mission. Lots yet to

At http://phys.org/print377424373.html ... a series of shots of the ice cap growing and receding during the Late Glacial Maximum is illuminating. It relies on collated

At http://phys.org/print377424973.html ... dazzling red flashes emitted from a distant galaxy are being associated with a theoretical black hole. No other phenomenon in mainstream cosmology

Robert Farrar sent in this link, http://crev.info/2016/03/triassic-reptile-soft-tissue/ ... which concerns a paper in the online journal PLoS One which documents the survival of soft tissue