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Over a ton (in weight) of fossils has been gathered in Antarctica by a team of scientists. They include marine creatures, dinosaurs, and birds (see

Jupiter is hit by between 6 or 7 large impacts each year on average according to a group of amateur astronomers from around the world

This story is fascinating as it has a boy wonder with an amazing theory and some older critics that got hold of the wrong end

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/ancient-trading... ... which concerns a modern study of camel DNA and the movement of ancient caravans across the deserts of Arabia that may have

At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/how-london-became-britain... ... one first has to wonder if Londinium was the capital of Britannia (rather than south east Britain) but assuming they are referring

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/archaeologists-... ... archaeologists have unearthed the bone of pre-Younger Dryas bison on a dig in Florida (among other interesting things) some ten feet below

Bronze tools found in Sweden dating to 1600BC were made using copper from the Mediterranean region. This is perhaps not surprising as a shipwrect off

At http://phys.org/print382011175.html ... a paper in May's issue of Nature concerns the discovery of intense winds found in the near neighbourhood of a black hole.

Back in October of 2014 there was a conference in Halle in Germany on a sudden climatic event dated to 2200BC which appears to be

This is a hot potato in some ways as it has been found the Earth's mantle flows and causes the crust to periodically move up

At http://archive.archaeology.org/0001/newsbriefs/egypt.html ... this is an extraordinary story in that the Egyptians had developed a phonetic alphabet by the early Middle Kingdom period (around 2000

I have just received a response to a News item from 18 months ago - see www.sis-group.org.uk/news/moon-and-jet-stream.htm ... It seems the article written by Clive

'Outrageous Waves: Global Warming and Coastal Change in Britain through 2000 years' by Basil Cracknell (Philimore and Co., Chichester:2005) was produced at a time when

At http://phys.org/print381597635.html ... Pluto's interaction with the solar wind is unique we are told. According to a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research -

We've all heard of vitrified forts in Scotland but who knows of the vitrified remains at Borsippa in Sumeria. Go to https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/vitrified-forts-surveying-the... ... in what

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/04/dutch-geologist-calls-climate-science... .... I suppose this is the usual geologist take on climate. They are used to dealing with blocks of hundreds of thousands of

At http://phys.org/print381383366.html ... Palaeolithic humans and genetics. At the end of the piece we are told there was admixture with Neanderthals around 45,000 years ago.

Planet Nine is in the news again - a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal by Kenyon and Bradley (see http://phys.org/print381496454.html) that uses computer simulation

Louis Hissink on sand dunes - provoked by Gary Gilligan's recent guest post. At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/louis-hissink-sand-dunes/ .... we learn he was a geologist working in the

At http://phys.org/print381420139.html ... dark lines on slopes on Mars are created by water, it is claimed (very hot water). At http://phys.org/print381396983.html ... NASA research (via