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At http://phys.org/print361438706.html ... the composition of asteroids is discussed. They are mostly rock but some contain a lot of clay and silicates as well as

It seems a more sober assessment of Homo naledi is now emerging after the media went over hype. At http://phys.org/print361434216.html ... more details have emerged

a cloud of plasma 600,000km in length is being held above the surface of the Sun by its magnetic field - go to www.spaceweather.com

Exodus is going to feature in one of our talks at the speaker meeting in Watford this weekend so it might be worth while if

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/09/07/food-for-thought/ ... there is a marvellous piece by Rens Van Der Sluijs on the food of the gods and the idea of people feeding

At http://phys.org/print361182218.html ... surfaces vary in colour when something about them changes, due to composition and make-up (geology) and other differences (liquid and solid etc).

At http://astronomynow.com/2015/09/09/ceres-bright-spots-seen-in-striking-n... ... where we have an image (below) of the white blob, or bright spot, on the asteroid Ceres - as seen by the

At www.independent.com.mt/articles/2009-07-13/news/could-sardinia-be-the-lo... ... this story goes back a couple of years and is apparently dead and buried - so the conference must have been a

At http://anthropology.net/2015/09/11/news-from-rising-star-cave-homo-naled... ... another story picked up by the media in general without a lot of thought about what was being said in the press

Not all the big discoveries are taking place in space - archaeology is having a nice plate full at the moment. At http://phys.org/print360840353.html ... the

The new discovery at Durrington Walls henge can be found on most media web sites from The Guardian to the Independent. It is also at

At www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/1856329/many-global-warming-s... ... which is the South China Morning Post, apparently read at times by Andrew - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/9/wrong-speed-dating.html ... and concerns a paper in

At http://phys.org/print360921973.html ... evidence of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers grinding oats has been found in southern Italy - a stone pestle with bits of grain still

Mike Parker Pearson's Stonehenge theory has taken a bit of a tumble with the discovery of 90 buried standing stones at Durrington Walls. He theorised

An article in Physics Today (Sept, 2014, page 32) by David King and Mark Boslough, describes what happened when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in an

At http://phys.org/print360468954.html ... black holes are strange affairs. They refuse to allow anything to escape from out of their clutches - even light itself. No

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/5/temperature-questions.html ... the El Nino brewing in the Pacific is causing a lot of agitation amongst the CAGW faithful. Why an entirely natural cycle

Brian Sherwood Jones forwarded this link www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html ... the first volume of the 'History of Cartography' was published in 1987 - and another three books

  At http://phys.org/print360320788.html ... it has been found that European domesticated pigs have far more genetic links to the wild European boar population than previously

A digital reconstruction of the continental shelf underneath the North Sea basin is about to take place, we are told, following the allotment of a