In the News

At www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/radioactive-boars-rampage-around-fukus... ... following the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power station during the earthquake and tsunami wave the surrounding area was evacuated - leaving

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-3800-year-journey... ... we have a clay tablet from Babylonia that was originally pulled from an excavation of Old Babylonian (Middle Bronze Age) archaeology in

At http://phys.org/print379669279.html ... and http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/chauvet-pont-darc-c... ... we have a story about dating the cave art, a head scratching affair. The cave is situated in southern

At http://phys.org/print379302444.html ... we learn the World Bank intends to increase funding for renewable energy projects - in developing countries. Should people over there start

  On the day the BBC has an old story about Greenland ice melting (the research was done months ago and is down to the

I was struck by how different people interpret the same image after reading the latest offering from www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/04/04/divine-colors/ ... Michael Armstrong sees the gods of

   At www.spaceweather.com - April 11th ... The solar minimum is looking less likely with the emergence of a big sun spot, doubling in size

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/irish-guide-to-the-first-mill... ... purports to show that C14 dates prior to 600AD are unreliable as a result of a cosmci event. The detail is missing

At http://phys.org/print379308179.html ... an interesting discovery. Ribose and related sugar molecules, the backbone of RNA, or ribonucleic acids, which are important in the coding of

At http://phys.org/print379344355.html ... ESAs Rosetta spacecraft beamed back data from the atmosphere, or coma of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko with evidence of a crystalline form of ice

Staying with Australia, at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/dna-study-suggests-... ... which is another effort to understand the origin of the dingo, a dog that some people see as bearing

A fascinating article from The Conversation but regurgitated at http://phys.org/print379231557.html ... Aborigines used the stars to compose a series of 'way points' (usually water-holes or

The environmental wonder boy and mischief maker Jared Diamond, author of The Third Chimpanzee, 'Guns Germs and Steel' and 'Collapse: How societies choose to fail

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/nasa-study-solves-two-mysteri... ... and at www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-global-warming-now-changing-earth-wobbles-180545... ... which in The Independent newspaper becomes a headline about global warming responsible for causing the spin axis of

Presumably Planet Nine is Planet X - without the nut job element (keeping academics safe in their leather chairs). At www.space.com/32478-is-mysterious-planet-nine-tugging-on-nasa-saturn-pro... ... astronomers seem to

At www.spaceweather.com April 7th and 8th 2016 ... we have news of a geomagnetic storm on April 7th - but with a difference. Although a

At www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/04/06/new-horizons-... ... the solar wind generates fast moving space particles and cosmic rays and these have been recorded in the vicinity of Pluto -

At www.yahoo.com/news/giant-mammoth-skull-discovered-bulldozer-operator-134... ... the skull of an Ice Age mammoth has been dug up by a bulldozer operator in Oklahoma. This is not your cold

At http://phys.org/print378966883.html ... Pluto's bladed terrain in 3D At http://phys.org/print378986225.html ... a mysterious radio burst that left an afterglow last February did not, it seems,

This is one of those odd postings, with the question being asked - is there more light and energy out there in space than astronomers