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The alternative geological journal New Concepts in Global Tectonics has some exciting stuff to read. The latest issue can be downloaded at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php and one

At http://phys.org/print386851767.html ... where did the two satellites of Mars come from, Phobos and Deimos. They were made famous by Velikovsky as the 'steeds of

At www.spaceweather.com (July 5th 2016) we are told, unlike Earth which has auroras in response to solar activity, Jupiter makes its own auroras, in part

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/a-6000-year-old-te... ... is archaeology with astronomy. It seems that archaeo-astronomers have been looking at megalithic tombs dating back as long ago as 4000BC and

At http://phys.org/print386572836.html ... NASAs Juno spacecraft has crossed the magnetosphere of Jupiter. There will be lots of images and data beamed back in coming weeks

At http://phys.org/print386572617.html ... Curiosity Rover has been looking at samples of sand and at sand dunes and presumably sandstones on Mars. A paper in the

A mainstream view of the ozone hole and a report on a study published in the journal Science this week - at http://earthsky.org/earth/antarctic-ozone-shows-signs-of-healing ... and

At http://phys.org/print386311403.html ... we have a new kind of 'clandestine' black hole. Basically, what has been detected is a source of radio noise At http://phys.org/print386434403.html

We haven't heard much lately about the Japanese Hayabasa probe which had the mission to rendevous with asteroid Itokawa back in 2005. It studied various

At http://phys.org/print386441561.html ... we learn that recent hyperthermal activity may explain the bright spots on the asteroid Ceres. This is interesting in as much as

At http://phys.org/print386346868.html ... life evolved three times faster after the extinction of the dinosaurs than it evolved in the preceding 80 million years. Is this

At http://phys.org/print386437614.html ... we return once again to the Hobbits. Anthropologists can't leave them alone. They were just three feet in height. Scientists have now

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/06/29/u-turn-scientists-at-pik-potsdam-inst... ... source of the story is the Daily Berliner newspaper. It seems the notorious ultra-warmists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/case-study/news/n0686-medieval-weapon-m... .. archaeologists chanced upon an ancient furnace after first spotting slag and clay on a roadside location. Two furnaces were subsequently unearthed, made

The water on Mars story is getting interesting. Is this another example of water as part of planetary make-up (even perhaps subterrranean water) (see post

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/37-000-year-old... ... the surprise being that the person was not related to Australian Aborigines. It has been the consensus view for some time that

This should perhaps be under physics but here goes with geology. The blog https://lhcrazyworld.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/moho-water/ ... is the home of Louis Hissink, a geologist (but something

Bees and electricity feature in this month's Thunderbolts videos - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/06/25/bees-and-electric-charge-electricity... ... but we also have the same subject but more nuanced at

We have an expanding universe, the possibility of an expanding earth, and expanding planets in deep space - and now we have the possibility that

The black hole concerned in this instance is at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, our very own. At http://phys.org/print385979471.html ... we are told