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At http://phys.org/print375009120.html ... although the paper is presented as part of the global warming discussion, presumably as a requisite to garner funds for further research,

Has a spike being put in the spoke of the gravitational wave announcement? At http://phys.org/print375096388.html ... It seems NASAs Fermi telescope detected a Gamma Ray

Seems like there are things about the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 that have gone unanswered - see http://phys.org/print374749581.html. It exploded at an altitude of 20km

How to respond to the discovery of gravitational waves that are thought to originate in the merger of two black holes has been difficult. One

People of Eurasian origin have inherited dna from Neanderthals - see http://phys.org/print374420448.html The discovery of this led to a raft of speculative ideas. Did Neanderthal

A Scythian warrior burial in the modern day republic of Tuva has been uncovered - and remarkably tomb robbers never reached the treasure in the

At http://phys.org/print373313880.html ... scientists have discovered two new iron oxides in experiments. These seem to point to a huge, hitherto unknown oxygen source in the

Gary Gilligan sent in these links - a surprising view of the Sahara. Go to https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077342-secret-sahara-reveals-fairy... ... and https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27971-humans-accidentally-created... ... https://www.newscientist.com/article/volcano-hunters-dig-into-the-sahara...         

Fred Jueneman was a member of SIS for many years. He died in 2014. There is a nice piece featuring him at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/02/15/the-sands-of-mars/ .... which

Survival International is one of the smaller but better NGOs - and they have complained about the activities of one of the bigger NGOs who

At www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12150373/Remains-... ... not perhaps the most cited link for this story but it provides nice images which are computer simulations but provide a good

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/e-2fb020816.php ... some 200,000 fish bones were discovered in and around a pit in Sweden that has been dated over 9000 years ago to

At Thorikos in Greece, at the foot a a Mycenaean acropolis, and overlooking the harbour of Lavrio, a French team have found an amazing network

At http://phys.org/print374150033.html ... I always find it strange when a new piece of research claims to have come up with something new when it has

Long article on Jerusalem at http://rogerswebsite.com/articles/Lost-History-of-Jerusalem.pdf ... lots of effort went into this and lots of pictures to go with the text. Enough there to

Dr John Christy is one of the more clever of the climate scientists and doesn't buy into the alarmism - go to http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/02/scientist-ruthlessly-debunks-one-of-no... ... is

News on plasma fusion - see http://phys.org/print373880299.html ... and meanwhile, at www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/02/04/one-of-saturn... ... according to a recent study the inner portion of one of Saturn's

Hasan Peker is Turkey's leading expert on Luwian heiroglyphics. In a recent London lecture (February 2016) he told of the discovery in 2015 of the

The Zika virus appears to be the latest in a long line of health 'doom mongerings' that has gone viral on social media and the

    At http://phys.org/print373795118.html ... some really nice images of the surface of the Moon taken by the Chinese rover Yutu and the Chang'e lander. At