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Another interesting web site (or blog) you might want to look at - http://linguacatastrophica.blogspot.co.uk There is another one, a sort of forum set up or

At www.livescience.com/9771-mamm oths-alive-thought.html .... it seems mammoths may not have gone extinct in the Late Pleistocene (Younger Dryas Boundary) after all. Pockets of them may

At www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unearthed-hittite-artifacts-in-istanbul-break-... ... the title of this piece is a question mark - Hittites or Hurrians? It begins by saying objects of the Hurrian civilisation

At http://phys.org/print358144586.html .... the end of Permian extinction event resulted in the demise of 90 per cent of marine life. It is thought that ocean

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/excavations-reveal-... ... a drainage tunnel, or ancient sewer, several hundred metres in length runs from near the Siloam Pool in Jerusalem, on the slopes

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