In the News

Comet Lovejoy released large amounts of alcohol and sugars into space late last year according to new observations by an international team - see http://phys.org/print364829979.html

At www.nature.com/news/ancient-civilizations-cracking-the-indus-script-1.18587 ... as far as codes, or undecyphered scripts are concerned, the Indus script has kept a few brians busy over many years. One

At http://phys.org/print364634051.html ... the recent announcement that an eleven year search had failed to find the gravitational waves from two black holes in the process

At http://phys.org/print364664826.html ... a paper in Nature (Oct 22nd 2015) seems to undermine Einstein who said nothing moved faster than light. The Delft experiment involved

Robert Farrar sent in this link to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151017152343.htm ... durable crystals known as zircons are used to date some the earliest and most dramatic cataclysms

Palaeontologists have discovered a cliff side in Utah full of dinosaur fossils from the Triassic. Preliminary findings were presented at a conference in Dallas in

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/surprise-asteroid-to-give-ear... ... an asteroid is due to pass close to the earth at some 1.3 lunar distances on October 31st (2015). It was discovered

At http://phys.org/print364132548.html ... for a long time the prevailing view has been that climate variations in the Atlantic region are due to ocean circulation, the

At www.bishop-hill.net/2015/10/16/the-man-the-royal-society-honoured-not-on... ... tells us lots about the magic money tree and how even the allegedly most scientific organisation in the UK can be infiltrated

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0448-7000-year-old-sibe... ... a burial mound going back to the 5th or 6th millennium BC, in western Siberia, has taken archaeologists by surprise. However, kurgans

Some people never give up. The idea that huge Pleistocene animals were wiped out by human hunters, small in number and armed with sharp stones

It seems that Andrew Fitt has jumped the gun and invited Ruth Dwyer to speak at the upcoming Toronto conference in May of next year

Out of Africa has more problems - see http://phys.org/print364047660.html ... and the acrobats necessary to keep the politically correct meme alive and kicking is quite

At http://phys.org/print364026080.html ... US and German researchers have discovered a new solar phenomenon, blas waves in the Sun's atmosphere accompanied by particle emissions rich in

An interesting speaker at the GWPF - Patrick Moore. This is not the eccentric BBC in-house astronomer (who recently died) but Patrick Moore, formerly of

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/resonant-rumblings-inside-sat... ... unusual ripples in Saturn's rings are part of a mysterious rumble. The rings are full of activity, including waves that ricochet outward

At the recent study group meeting in Willesden we discussed Ellsworth Huntington's research in central Asia and his book, 'The Pulse of Asia' - from

  An enormous coronal hole has opened up and a broad stream of solar wind is pouring out. For much of next week the earth's

I haven't seen them all yet but there are six videos posted on YouTube by Ruth Dwyer - see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0POfUod85Wk ... but hat

Catastrophism is back on the nose at George Howard's place - go to http://cosmictusk.com/wow/ ... and one word says it all as unusual silicate glass