In the News

This is a piece of tweaking the nose of the Leakey's - those avid finders of fossil humans in the African Rift Valley - see

At http://phys.org/print359878549.html ... accelerator mass spectrometry has been used by Russian biologists to date the remains of a cave lion that had been preserved in

Lots of noise this week as apparently Stephen Hawking has spoken on the subject of black holes - see http://phys.org/print359978825.html ... He claims he has

Thunderbolts this month also has a piece by one Andrew Hall, described as an engineer and writer. He is clearly somebody with his feet on

Bob Porter over at the New Chronology Yahoo group has written that C14 dates from Thebes differ from those of the same period taken from

Stephen Smith may have a mechanism, loosely described, to explain the heat found on Pluto - following a query from an SIS member. See www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/08/21/thermal-axes/

  get up to date with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko as we approach our autumn speaker meeting and the presentation by Mark Baily of the Armagh Observatory.

The Ryan and Pitman claim (back in 1997) that the Black Sea was flooded when a rock sill at the Bosporus was breached and salt

The ancient geography of the Mediterranean Basin has been profoundly changed by sea level rise following the Late Glacial Maximum. This global event led to

  at www.spaceweather.com (August 19th 2015) a rare form of aurora emanating from a class G3 geomagnetic storm erupted on Augsut 15th when a CME

Keenan describes the 2300BC event as perhaps the most significant event in the Holocene - since the end of the Ice Ages. Presumably he means

At http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9908052v2 ... this is a pre-publication review of a paper co-authored by Douglas Keenan. The title is, 'The Three Century climatic upheaval at c2000BC,

At http://phys.org/print359028114.html ... we are told that for the last 1800 years there has been, on average, a global cooling that has only been halted

The term Bushmen is apparently not politically correct nowadays - for reason too dire to mention. Hence, the title above, the San - which refers,

At www.hurriyetdailynews.com/symbols-of-hittite-goddess-of-sexuality-found-... ... the Hittites once again are invoked and again at a date long before they existed - 4000 years ago. Well, they probably

At http://phys.org/print358749229.html ... we get to understand why NOAA, NASA GISS and HadCRU have been tampering with the temperature data by changing the way they

Brilliant new video with Wal Thornhill describing a long journey of 40 years in his attempt to understand gravity in an electrical universe -go to

At http://phys.org/print358755490.html ... Durham University has updated a map of the Arctic sea bed which depicts the marine resources that have been discovered in recent

Interesting story and research at http://phys.org/print358750569.html ... molecular scientists unexpectedly produced a new type of glass, and it involved vapourising the experimental material - thereby

   at http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,406023,polish-archaeologists-... ... collaboration between Polish archaeologists and their Danish counterparts have taken place at a site on the island of Bornholm in Denmark.