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At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/indus-valley-civil... ... begins by telling us 'climate change' was probably not the sole reason for the collapse of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus-Chaggar-Hakra

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/new-cretaceous-fos... ... ants go back a long way - but they were not always social insects (although small groups of ants are known in

At http://phys.org/print383921447.html ... the subject is hydrothermal vents and methane seeps on the sea floor in various regions of the world. These have variously been

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/small-modular-nuclear-reactor... ... we are told. A thousand such small reactors could replace the necessity for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station the politicos

The theory of Henrik Svensmark, the seeding of clouds by cosmic rays, has been strengthened by the results of the CERN experiments (recently published) it

We have recently had the theory Planet 9 was a supernova fragment - now we have another hypothesis. At http://phys.org/print383894531.html ... a computer simulation at

In December of 2017 the near earth asteroid Phaethon will pass close to the orbit of the Earth (18 months from now) coming within 10

A hexagonal form of diamond later known as lonsdaleite was identifed for the first time inside or alongside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the

At http://phys.org/print384004404.html ... earth's magnetic field deflects solar radiation and allows life to thrive (or that is the theory). It is also supposed the core

At www.spaceweather.com (June 2nd 2016) we learn that on the 4th and 5th of June the Earth will say hello to a stream of solar

Geopulsation seems like a made up word with a made up hypothesis to boot. This concerns a book by RW Welch, 'The Roots of Cataclysm:Geopulsation

I love bumblebees, especialy in the spring, hovering around early flowers and blossoms. At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bumblebees-detect-flowers-electric-buz... ... it seems flowers generate a weak electric field and

Mainstream is very fond of emphasizing migration Out of Africa but it seems there was also a bit of migration Into Africa - see http://phys.org/print383472524.html

At http://phys.org/print383580189.html ... the amino acid glycine was detected by the Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko according to a paper in Science Advances (May 2016).

The K/T boundary event (asteroid or comet whack) had a definite impact on the Antarctic according to http://phys.org/print383473445.html. Research published in Nature Communications (May 2016)

At http://phys.org/print383558171.html ... in 1242 the Mongol army was set to conquer central Europe when it mysteriously turned around and went back into Russia. A

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/28/solar-deniers-face-harsh-times-flurry... ... well there you have it. It's the Sun 'innit' - the big orb in the sky. It seems that climate scientists have

Sediments in the Bay of Naples have been explored and have revealed how the eruption of Vesuvius affected water supply and sewage/drainage systems - see

At http://phys.org/print383229114.html ... there is a fascinating piece of research from Greenland that will warm the cockles of somebody's heart. A history of snowfall is

At http://phys.org/print383382056.html ... science has been having a look at wild horses and how they survived the last Ice Age into the Holocene and the