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Not really ancient history - just a few centuries ago. At http://phys.org/print377269015.html ... we have a post on the Reformation of the English Church, a

I hadn't thought of this but as most mountain chains are assumed to be the result of continents colliding causing the crust to fold, how

At http://phys.org/print377326641.html ... the spots on Ceres are continuing to puzzle. They are very bright, reflecting more light than the much darker surroundings. New observations

It serems there is a green comet approaching the Earth and it will be the fifth closest encounter in modern times - just 5.4 million

The more we get to know about Mercury the weirder it seems - this is the headline at http://phys.org/print376910716.html ... and it seems the planet

... here is a view of the Antarctic from space. Does it look like it is melting? It seems the Dr Strangelove types involved in

This is an interesting encounter between a comet and a planet and it could be used to conjecture on what might have occurred on Earth

Another violent episode in  the history of the solar system is currently being projected - this time involving Venus (shades of Velikovsky). At http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/giant-planetary-smashup-may... ...

Climate change is blamed for a lot of things. At http://phys.org/print376640171.html ... and now is is blamed from the demise of the ichthyosaurs - marine

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/05/scientific-elitism-is-fundamentall... ... we have lots of evidence of this with some of the government chief scientists of recent years over here in the UK.

Lots of insects have been found in amber - but apparently so were lizards and geekos ... and the chameleon - go to http://phys.org/print376555684.html

Like a super big pimple there is a great cone on the asteroid Ceres, and a strange looking crater at its feet. What is going

At http://phys.org/print376299794.html ... oh dear, the patrollers of the mainstream view of all things have cast a disparaging eye on an article published in the

The monster volcano occurred on Mars, we are told - see http://phys.org/print376153952.html ... and it happened a long long long time ago - 3.5 billion

At http://phys.org/print376045573.html ... and various sources. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has provided the information on a paper in Scientific Reports (Feb 2016) by

At www.newscientist.com/article/2078975-bigger-than-higgs-bigger-even-than-... ... yes, the Large Hadron Collider might have found something - gigger than the Higgs Bosun, bigger even than gravitational waves - but

At http://phys.org/print375969776.html ... the subject title is, 'what causes lightning?' - and it begins by saying it is well known that lightning is an electric

At http://phys.org/print376124193.html ... a moose living in western Siberia, in the Tomsk region, has been gene mapped in an attempt to form a link with

At www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/01/anglo-saxon-island-remains-disco... ... what was an island in post-Roman period Lincolnshire, remaining so until medieval and modern drainage projects, has turned up a bounty of

At http://phys.org/print375851809.html ... Palaeontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic fossil bed in Patagonia - four years after it was first