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Nice one here. You have heard of the expanding universe and the expanding earth theory but now we the claim the moon of Pluton, one

At http://phys.org/print375349033.html ... glypodonts, like all armadilloes, originate from a common ancestor around 35 million years ago. The glypodont is a very large version of

At http://phys.org/print375467925.html ... getting round the problem of a gamma ray burst being detected at the same time as the hypothetical merger of two black

It seems that even genetics can get frenetic over when genetic changes might have taken place. This new discipline, presented as almost infallible, has been

Seems like some academics have discovered atheism might have been prevalent in the ancient world - particularly during the Greek and Roman classical era. Atheism

Two pieces explaining the warmth from November to February - El Nino. Go to http://phys.org/print375009187.html ... and http://phys.org/print375033372.html ... The funny thing here is that

At http://phys.org/print375009120.html ... although the paper is presented as part of the global warming discussion, presumably as a requisite to garner funds for further research,

Has a spike being put in the spoke of the gravitational wave announcement? At http://phys.org/print375096388.html ... It seems NASAs Fermi telescope detected a Gamma Ray

Seems like there are things about the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 that have gone unanswered - see http://phys.org/print374749581.html. It exploded at an altitude of 20km

How to respond to the discovery of gravitational waves that are thought to originate in the merger of two black holes has been difficult. One

People of Eurasian origin have inherited dna from Neanderthals - see http://phys.org/print374420448.html The discovery of this led to a raft of speculative ideas. Did Neanderthal

A Scythian warrior burial in the modern day republic of Tuva has been uncovered - and remarkably tomb robbers never reached the treasure in the

At http://phys.org/print373313880.html ... scientists have discovered two new iron oxides in experiments. These seem to point to a huge, hitherto unknown oxygen source in the

Gary Gilligan sent in these links - a surprising view of the Sahara. Go to https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077342-secret-sahara-reveals-fairy... ... and https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27971-humans-accidentally-created... ... https://www.newscientist.com/article/volcano-hunters-dig-into-the-sahara...         

Fred Jueneman was a member of SIS for many years. He died in 2014. There is a nice piece featuring him at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/02/15/the-sands-of-mars/ .... which

Survival International is one of the smaller but better NGOs - and they have complained about the activities of one of the bigger NGOs who

At www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12150373/Remains-... ... not perhaps the most cited link for this story but it provides nice images which are computer simulations but provide a good

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/e-2fb020816.php ... some 200,000 fish bones were discovered in and around a pit in Sweden that has been dated over 9000 years ago to

At Thorikos in Greece, at the foot a a Mycenaean acropolis, and overlooking the harbour of Lavrio, a French team have found an amazing network

At http://phys.org/print374150033.html ... I always find it strange when a new piece of research claims to have come up with something new when it has