In the News

A team of astronomers from Armagh Observatory and Buckingham University say that the discovery of hundreds of giant comets in the wider planetary system over

The outer universe is looking more and more like a larger version of near space. A ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy has

   NASAs DAWN spacecraft has delivered images from its lowest orbital angle which shows up some peculiar cup shaped craters. Many of the troughs, grooves,

Robert Farrar sent in this link on planet morphology at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/12/20/the-antipodal-moon/ ... which begins by saying mainstream is puzzled by the moon for a variety

At http://phys.org/print369459676.html .... maritime historians are getting on the climate change bandwagon by co-operating with climate scientists in order to trawl through US whaling log

At http://phys.org/print369910125.html ... I found this story interesting but I don't suppose everyone will. Functional food - or food using emulsifiers. This has now progressed

I'm not sure if this was sent in by somebody at the contact email address or I picked it up when reading something at a

Another favourite doomsaying of the media is the finger pointing aimed at poor old Joe Public because of mountains of plastic waste supposedly accumulating in

At http://phys.org/print369930046.html ... the November and December warmth is not just in Britain and Ireland or along the path of the Gulf Stream into northern

At www.space.com/31419-asteroid-2015-yb-earth-flyby.html ... a bus sized asteroid buzzed past the Earth on the morning of December 19th - almost unannounced. It didn't stop. In fact

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218161458.htm ... NASAs MMS mission (Magnetospheric Multiscale) is looking at magnetic effects caused by the solar wind. The explosive realignment of magnetic fields is

Tim Cullen at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/neal-adams-06-pangea-proven-w... ... has posted, so far, some seven videos made by Neil Adams on the Expanding Universe theory. Have a look at

  the Sun is not quiet. It is brewing up a storm. Go to www.spaceweather.com ... and just beyond the Sun's eastern horizon it is

   Old Nick gets about as we have a Devil's Hole and a Devil's Punchbowl over here in the UK. At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/a-climatological-tr... ... we have

This story was everywhere - but then dogs are very popular as human companions, as working dogs (retrieving dead animals, rooting out rabbits in holes,

At http://phys.org/print369561139.html ... an interesting study of a massive volcanic field in the Andes that reveals a surprising amount of uplift in a short time

Gardeners and farmers are well aware of aphids as a sap eating pest of various crops and flowering plants. They suck up a sugary sap

Catastrophism has many tentacles and far reaching affects, not least human and animal migrations. At http://westerndigs.org/800-year-old-camp-found-in-oregon-sand-dunes-pose... ... an assemblage of pottery, stone points, a gaming

Winter Warmers usually come in the shape of bottles of strong ale or mulled wine or even in warm jugs of cider laced with ginger,

The recent earthquake in Nepal caught the headlines around the world but it does not appear to have been anything particularly special in the grand