In the News

Back in October of 2014 there was a conference in Halle in Germany on a sudden climatic event dated to 2200BC which appears to be

This is a hot potato in some ways as it has been found the Earth's mantle flows and causes the crust to periodically move up

At http://archive.archaeology.org/0001/newsbriefs/egypt.html ... this is an extraordinary story in that the Egyptians had developed a phonetic alphabet by the early Middle Kingdom period (around 2000

I have just received a response to a News item from 18 months ago - see www.sis-group.org.uk/news/moon-and-jet-stream.htm ... It seems the article written by Clive

'Outrageous Waves: Global Warming and Coastal Change in Britain through 2000 years' by Basil Cracknell (Philimore and Co., Chichester:2005) was produced at a time when

At http://phys.org/print381597635.html ... Pluto's interaction with the solar wind is unique we are told. According to a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research -

We've all heard of vitrified forts in Scotland but who knows of the vitrified remains at Borsippa in Sumeria. Go to https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/vitrified-forts-surveying-the... ... in what

At http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/04/dutch-geologist-calls-climate-science... .... I suppose this is the usual geologist take on climate. They are used to dealing with blocks of hundreds of thousands of

At http://phys.org/print381383366.html ... Palaeolithic humans and genetics. At the end of the piece we are told there was admixture with Neanderthals around 45,000 years ago.

Planet Nine is in the news again - a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal by Kenyon and Bradley (see http://phys.org/print381496454.html) that uses computer simulation

Louis Hissink on sand dunes - provoked by Gary Gilligan's recent guest post. At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/louis-hissink-sand-dunes/ .... we learn he was a geologist working in the

At http://phys.org/print381420139.html ... dark lines on slopes on Mars are created by water, it is claimed (very hot water). At http://phys.org/print381396983.html ... NASA research (via

At www.spaceweather.com (May 2nd 2016) - mysterious magnetic fields spark aurorae. For three days Earth has been moving through a region of space filled with

At https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296060902 .... European oak tree chronologies archaeologically anchored in Roman times are all separated from early medieval chronologies by a severe timber depletion in

At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-2000-year-old-geoglyph-spotted-per... ... confirms that Greenpeace did 'irreparable' damage to the Nazca lines looking to make a point about CAGW alarmism. A Japanese team has

At http://phys.org/print381157131.html ... a paper due out in May's Science Advances (2016) is set to claim C/2014 S3 PANSTARRS is an ancient rocky body -

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/evidence-of-solar-flares-bigg... ... refers to an article in April's Nature Communications (2016) and the possibility the Sun can produce super flares - one hundred times

At http://phys.org/print380870251.html ... does lightning on other planets send radio signals to Earth? In this instance, radio signals from exo-planets. At http://phys.org/print380860503.html ... Einstein's theory

Gary Gilligan has an interesting article on sand at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/guest-post-by-gary-gilligan/ ... the purity of sand seems to belie the standard explanation. The amount of sand

Crowd funding is becoming an important part of research outside the box. Scientists researching mainstream subjects have no trouble being bankrolled but scientists researching less