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  In the June 2016 issue of Scientific American Daniel Kasen of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has focused on developing new theoretical and computer

Gary Gilligan has replied to the first post, June 14th, and raised some interesting points about silica, and to the apparent violent history of Mars.

The God Scam might be one way to phrase it but Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist, is said by some to have found evidence of

At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bronze-buckle-shows-ancient-link-betwe... ... evidence of trade between Alaska (and the Thule culture) and East Asia (possibly China, indirectly if not directly) in the medieval period.

At last, a black hole  observed feeding - apparently. That is the headline at http://phys.org/print384608570.html ... which is presumably derived from the press release. For

At http://phys.org/print384506247.html ... galaxies are moving away faster than expected. This is what we learnt a week ago. The question is - what is driving

At http://phys.org/print384501180.html .. a mysterious ring of celestial microwaves, a giant celestial structure are some ways to describe a circular formation covering one third of

At http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-found-something-mars-could-1901... ... Curiosity Rover has detected a mineral, tridymite, that can only be created in extremely hot temperatures. It seems Mars was once hotter

What the chancellor has in store over the next 3 or 4 years will make your eyes water. Go to http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/booker-unravels-... ... and www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/11/the-government-is-pursuing-a-climate... ...

  .. a Doughnut of light was seen over Colorado on June 8th, an enormous ring of light near the edge of space. Amateur astronomer

At http://phys.org/print384769448.html ... seismic activity is problematic as it doesn't choose to conform to theory. For example, sensors have been installed at fault lines in

At http://phys.org/print384755263.html ... super computer modelling of Plate Tectonics and how it effects the crust and upper Mantle regions, has come up with some answers

Another Pluto image - this time of mountains. Pluto is believed to get its red tinge from tholim, found on the surface in molecular form.

Haven't looked at this blog before but an interesting point of view is expressed - go to https://risk-monger.com/2016/06/08/how-to-starve-africa-ask-the-european... ... and begins with the question, why

At http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/siberias-mystery-end-world-crater-formed-after-... .... we have a piece on that crater that mysteriously appeared in Siberia - triggered, it would seem, by an explosion of some

At http://phys.org/print384535030.html ... mammals were fairly common during the late dinosaur age, contrary to popular belief (or the consensus model as it was some years

That small sun spot has got bigger over the last day or two - see www.spaceweather.com June 10th ... and there is a possibility of

We have had a quiet Sun for a few days. However, today (thursday) a glimmer of a sun spot is visible on the face of

At http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2016/06/02/ancient-mayan-obse... ... researchers in Mexico have discovered a Maya observatory that was aligned to the Sun - and it was also aligned to track

At http://phys.org/print384080684.html ... we learn that during the Cretaceous period Antarctica was covered in rainforest and probably looked something like a virgin New Zealand environment,