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Otzi. A lot of genetic studies have been done on Otzi the ice man (rescued from a melting Alpine glacier) - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2015-2016/article/new-discov... ... and

At http://phys.org/print371967451.html ... water ice has been found on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (the ESA Rosetta Mission). The findings are published in January's Nature journal. The coma,

MJ Harper has proposed a new theory on the formation of deserts - which is novel if nothing else. You can buy a video from

At http://phys.org/print371886369.html ... some nice images for the dwarf planet (asteroid) Ceres taken by the Dawn Mission - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/dawn There are craters, ridges and

Zooming in on black holes is the main task of a newly installed instrument at ESOs telescope in Chile. The instrument combines the ligh from

The Climategate emails were a boon to climate sceptics as they revealed what some scientists really thought. For example, this one from Swansea University -

At http://phys.org/print371923822.html ... and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk ... we have a pile of split stones laid out on display - with apparently, sharp edges. They are

At http://phys.org/print371876448.html ... the Pleistocene is famous for big versions of beasts we see around us in the modern world. Mammoths are large elephants with

The story is still travelling around the Net - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bronze-age-houses-u... ... and comes complete with images (which must have been released by Cambridge University)

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/110-million-year-ol... ... dinosaur eggs found in Japan, just 5cm long and 2cm wide, really quite small for a big dinosaur beast to crack open.

The Gubastan petroglyphs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobustan_National_Park#Prehistoric_carvings   are not just squatting man lookalikes as there are 6000 of them dated between 5000 and 40,000 years ago.

This is one of those stories that seemed to die a death. At http://members.westnet.com.au/gary-david-thompson/page9g.html ... we have a post on John McHugh and his idea

On New Chronology Yahoo Group there has been a debate surrounding recent re-interpretation of the Homeric story of Odysseus Return to Ithaca (the Athens peninsular).

Recent fieldwork at Knossos on Crete has found that during the Iron Age (1100-600BC) the town was rich in imports and was nearly three times

At http://www.anthropology.net/2016/01/11/abstract-chauvet-painting-represe... ... three French researchers have published an article on the online journal PLoS One saying they think one the paintings in the famous

Comet Holmes was a bit of a damp squib in 2014. It was an eagerly awaited visit to the inner solar system as in 2007

Brain Sherwood Jones sent in this link - go to www.sott.net/article/309988-NASA-space-data-supports-citizens-observatio... What they are saying is that from 2010 until 2015 the average number of

Must Farm has been the object of archaeological reports and news flashes for a number of years. It is back again - in the news

We are told by the media and the environmentalist lobby, and ad libbed by politicos that should know better, that building on flood plains and

The Verney family were big time landowners in Buckinghamshire in the 17th to 19th centuries. They had a railway station built in the middle of