In the News

At www.spaceweather.com (May 2nd 2016) - mysterious magnetic fields spark aurorae. For three days Earth has been moving through a region of space filled with

At https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296060902 .... European oak tree chronologies archaeologically anchored in Roman times are all separated from early medieval chronologies by a severe timber depletion in

At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-2000-year-old-geoglyph-spotted-per... ... confirms that Greenpeace did 'irreparable' damage to the Nazca lines looking to make a point about CAGW alarmism. A Japanese team has

At http://phys.org/print381157131.html ... a paper due out in May's Science Advances (2016) is set to claim C/2014 S3 PANSTARRS is an ancient rocky body -

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/evidence-of-solar-flares-bigg... ... refers to an article in April's Nature Communications (2016) and the possibility the Sun can produce super flares - one hundred times

At http://phys.org/print380870251.html ... does lightning on other planets send radio signals to Earth? In this instance, radio signals from exo-planets. At http://phys.org/print380860503.html ... Einstein's theory

Gary Gilligan has an interesting article on sand at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/guest-post-by-gary-gilligan/ ... the purity of sand seems to belie the standard explanation. The amount of sand

Crowd funding is becoming an important part of research outside the box. Scientists researching mainstream subjects have no trouble being bankrolled but scientists researching less

The Daily Mail are reporting that co2 is greening the Earth (as claimed in a recent journal article) - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3557905/Rising-carbon-dioxide-ma... or http://dailym.ai/1qM4Q5h... scientists used satellite

  a cartoon created to counter wind farm and renewable propaganda aimed at school children - the character of Tommy the Turbine. In retaliation people

At http://phys.org/print380286576.html ... ESAs Venus Explorer sent back data just prior to plummeting down through its atmosphere. At the poles Venus is much colder that

More and more sceptics are emerging out of the mainstream woodwork. Eyes have been opened and pens are waggling in the hand - see for

Climate science is slowly catching up with the rest of us. At http://phys.org/print380256073.html ... they have discovered the 536 and 541AD low growth tree ring

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/first-north-america... ... (see also www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/monkeys-may-have-floated-to-north-amer...) ... is one of those stories where a new find is like a torpedo, holing a consensus theory in

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/dna-analysis-sugges... ... a dna analysis, it is claimed, has shown that Yiddish, the old language of the Ashkenazi Jews, had its origins in NE

At www.q-mag.org/pytheas-megaliths-and-the-tides.html ... Anne Marie de Grazia has translated Jean Deruelle the author of 'De la Prehistoroire a l'Atlantide de Megaliths' in which it is

At www.yahoo.com/news/dinosurs-struggled-survive-long-asteroid-hit-19233514... ... and www.yahoo.com/news/study-dinosaurs-were-declining-long-asteroid-hit-1902... ... which has been widely reported on the Web and concerns a press release coinciding with publication of a paper

Radiation appears to have a lesser effect on animals than human activity and interference - see http://phys.org/print380252676.html. Robert Farrar has also sent in the link

The idea that Beringia was a human refugia during the Late Glacial Maximum has been gaining momentum over the last few years. It is getting

Having a snort at another myth beloved of some people, the idea that bog bodies were ritual sacrificial victims - go to www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/The-truth-about-Irish-bog-bodies-PHO... ... the