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At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/05/scientific-elitism-is-fundamentall... ... we have lots of evidence of this with some of the government chief scientists of recent years over here in the UK.

Lots of insects have been found in amber - but apparently so were lizards and geekos ... and the chameleon - go to http://phys.org/print376555684.html

Like a super big pimple there is a great cone on the asteroid Ceres, and a strange looking crater at its feet. What is going

At http://phys.org/print376299794.html ... oh dear, the patrollers of the mainstream view of all things have cast a disparaging eye on an article published in the

The monster volcano occurred on Mars, we are told - see http://phys.org/print376153952.html ... and it happened a long long long time ago - 3.5 billion

At http://phys.org/print376045573.html ... and various sources. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has provided the information on a paper in Scientific Reports (Feb 2016) by

At www.newscientist.com/article/2078975-bigger-than-higgs-bigger-even-than-... ... yes, the Large Hadron Collider might have found something - gigger than the Higgs Bosun, bigger even than gravitational waves - but

At http://phys.org/print375969776.html ... the subject title is, 'what causes lightning?' - and it begins by saying it is well known that lightning is an electric

At http://phys.org/print376124193.html ... a moose living in western Siberia, in the Tomsk region, has been gene mapped in an attempt to form a link with

At www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/01/anglo-saxon-island-remains-disco... ... what was an island in post-Roman period Lincolnshire, remaining so until medieval and modern drainage projects, has turned up a bounty of

At http://phys.org/print375851809.html ... Palaeontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic fossil bed in Patagonia - four years after it was first

Writhing innards, as in wiggly things like nematoid worms and squidgy life forms such as bacteria. At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/inner-earth-teeming-exotic-forms-l... ... we learn a mile to two

Images of Pluto are still being beamed back to Earth - go to http://phys.org/print375951601.html Elsewhere, images of the centre of the Milky Way show a

One of the consensus ideas that has been popular for a long period of time is the belief that early Earth, over 3 billion years

Gary Gilligan has a new book, 'Extraterrestrial Sands' which is available via Amazon. Quartz sand is anywhere and everywhere imaginable on the surface of the

At http://phys.org/print375620395.html ... a gene sequence of Aboriginal men show they are all descendants of distant ancestors that reached Australia in the remote past. The

At www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/17/ancient-tavern-found-in-france/80... ... a Roman tavern has been unearthed in southern France. At http://phys.org/print375082942.html ... a complete wooden wheel has being dug out of the

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0213-world-famous-a... ... a collection of prehistoric Venus figurines are in facvt a fashion show of ordinary people of all ages from 20,000 years ago,

At www.space.com/32028-large-ish-meteor-hits-earth-but-no-one-notices.html ... the largest meteor to enter the atmosphere during the last 2 years, since Chelyabinsk, occurred over the South Atlantic Ocean on February

The idea of swimming dinosaurs has become popular recently, an idea deriving from footprints left behind which tend to show just the front or rear