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At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/07/is-jupiters-volcanic-moon-io-poise... ... in 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter facing hemisphere of Io had an estimated output of 78,000 Gigawatts

In Down to Earth 96 (August 2016, ISSN 0969 3408), we have an article by geologist Brian Ellis who has been looking at records and

At http://phys.org/print388825389.html .... another study on the Viking sun stones - this time a proper experiment ...    .... although sun stones have been featured

At http://phys.org/print388832074.html ... a DNA analysis of living and extinct species of New Zealand wrens have upset geological theories as it has been claimed New

At http://phys.org/print388828337.html ... Jupiter's red spot heats up the upper atmosphere, thereby explaining the anomalous high temperatures that can hardly be the result of sunshine.

We seem to get a lot of people thinking in a lopsided manner nowadays - but it seems climate scientists take the biscuit in this

Martin Sieff was a prominent member of SIS in its early days (way back when) but what has he been up to since that long

Wildfires are known to have been frequent features of the Australian past - and Aborigines usually get the blame as they have a habit of

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/40000-year-old-rop... ... a German team (see Archaologische Ausgrabungen Baden Wurttemberg) have found a rope or twine making tool dating to the Aurignacian period (roughly

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Mammatus clouds are so named for their similarity to cow udders and underbelly    The clouds above appeared after a thunderstorm in Manitoba. They seem

   Under the Greenland glacier radar has revealed a web of canyons caused by former rivers. Live Science provided the image on the left and

Oh Dear. Auntie has been caught telling porkies. Doom monger Roger from Auntie has been on the air waves - he even provided the words

July 19th and 20th, the arrival of a G1 geomagnetic storm following the early arrival of a CME originally expected on the 21st. Expect some

William H McNeil died this week (July 15th) age 98 years - a very good innings. He was the author of 'Plagues and Peoples' (which

At www.godkingscenario.com/gks/hathor-isis-ptah-sokar-atum-sun-night-atum-r... .. is Gary Gilligan's theory - a new page added to his updated web site. We have a celestial equator as well as

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/the-ancient-wor... .... a hill, 118m high, on the coast of Aghios Prokopios on the island of Naxos (in the Cyclades) has outcroppings of chert

This one is a bit of a surprise. Just as we were about to accept that early farming evolved in the Fertile Crescent and the

At http://phys.org/print387794468.html ... fossil finds in China challenge the Out of Africa theory of the evolution of modern humans.    The Chinese have wondered if

At www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/14620182.Archaeologists_find_evidence_of... ... excavations in Aberlady have unearthed the foundations of a large building that has been dated by animal bone to between the 7th