In the News

At http://phys.org/print378052215.html ... we are told that some of the moons of Saturn, such as Rhea, may in fact be just 100 million years old.

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/23/modelling-gravitational-waves/ ... NASA tells you how to create a model to demonstrate gravitational waves travelling through space time using gelatin, marbles, a mirror and

At www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/03/22/pluto-may-hav... .... we learn that NASA scientists are still puzzling over Pluto - and data is still arriving from the mission. Lots yet to

At http://phys.org/print377424373.html ... a series of shots of the ice cap growing and receding during the Late Glacial Maximum is illuminating. It relies on collated

At http://phys.org/print377424973.html ... dazzling red flashes emitted from a distant galaxy are being associated with a theoretical black hole. No other phenomenon in mainstream cosmology

Robert Farrar sent in this link, http://crev.info/2016/03/triassic-reptile-soft-tissue/ ... which concerns a paper in the online journal PLoS One which documents the survival of soft tissue

Not really ancient history - just a few centuries ago. At http://phys.org/print377269015.html ... we have a post on the Reformation of the English Church, a

I hadn't thought of this but as most mountain chains are assumed to be the result of continents colliding causing the crust to fold, how

At http://phys.org/print377326641.html ... the spots on Ceres are continuing to puzzle. They are very bright, reflecting more light than the much darker surroundings. New observations

It serems there is a green comet approaching the Earth and it will be the fifth closest encounter in modern times - just 5.4 million

The more we get to know about Mercury the weirder it seems - this is the headline at http://phys.org/print376910716.html ... and it seems the planet

... here is a view of the Antarctic from space. Does it look like it is melting? It seems the Dr Strangelove types involved in

This is an interesting encounter between a comet and a planet and it could be used to conjecture on what might have occurred on Earth

Another violent episode in  the history of the solar system is currently being projected - this time involving Venus (shades of Velikovsky). At http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/giant-planetary-smashup-may... ...

Climate change is blamed for a lot of things. At http://phys.org/print376640171.html ... and now is is blamed from the demise of the ichthyosaurs - marine

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