In the News

At www.livescience.com/51789-lightning-warps-rocks-atoms.html ... the researchers that found lightning was capable of altering rocks went to great trouble, slicing a sample to produce a sliver to

At http://phys.org/print358435621.html ... we get a flavour of how geological deep time affects interpretations of data regarding rocks and geochronology (how long a certain formation

At http://phys.org/print358435481.html ... an important new study on diatom blooms in the ocean   and whilst this only concerns the Southern Ocean (for the moment)

  At www.spaceweather.com August 11th .. it seems that for 4 days now the Earth has been inside a stream of fast moving solar wind.

At http://phys.org/print358186778.html .... a few weeks ago we learnt that solar scientists had changed the way they recorded sun spot number and there was some

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/06/pocket-calculator-climate-model-ou... ... the four authors of a controversial study from January 2015 that was published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/02/joe-bastardi-heat-will-not-get-erased... ... Joe Bastardi is an American meteorologist that has resisted CAGW alarmism in spite of constant badgering by activists. When he says stay

At www.icr.org/article/8829 .. we have a post on carbon dating fossils. The link came via the contact email address on our web site and the

At http://phys.org/print357892974.html ... NASAs WISE mission, which involved an infrared telescope and camera on a spacecraft, discovered a group of dark asteroids known as the

At http://phys.org/print357830982.html ... the site of Biblical Gath is being excavated and fortifications and an entrance gate have been unearthed which go back to the

  At http://phys.org/print358014293.html ... an article in the journal American Mineralogist illustrates how powerful lightning bolts can affect rocks, melting the surface resulting in a

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0339-these-petroglyphs-... ...   In this instance, the Ukok Plateau in the high Altai, close to the border of Russia with Mongolia. Stylistically the petroglyphs

At http://phys.org/print357476870.html ... University of Southampton researchers have found the behaviour of fruit flies can be altered by an electric field. The wings of the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/neolithic-house-dis... ... the remains of a house have been found at Avebury, situated near the West Kennet avenue (two parallel lines of stones that

At http://phys.org/print357206114.html ... in 2016 NASA plans to launch a mission to asteroid Bennu in order to carry out several tasks. One is to map

At http://phys.org/print357201985.html ... the planet Venus, it tells us, has played a role in the mythology and astrology of countless people around the globe -

At http://news.yahoo.com/mighty-mammoths-fell-prey-rapidly-warming-earth-12... ... and http://phys.org/print356878329.html .... concerns a paper that blames the demise of the mammoths and other large beasties on 'climate change' - and

At http://phys.org/print357194318.html ... in the deserts of Utah, Nevada, and southern Oregon ancient shorelines can b e found on hillsides above dry valley floors, left

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0135-first-glimpse-... ... this excellent web site has lots of images to go with its science stories - and we get to see inside the

Lots of links and information now emerging on the Rosetta mission. At http://phys.org/print357461396.html ... is a post on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its interaction with the