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The Royal Society, that august body that is fond of admiring itself in the window and bending the forelock towards the upper echelons, mouthing platitudes

This story is at http://phys.org/print354214493.html ... we have a computer simulation of the interaction of the solar wind with ions (electrically charged particles) in the

The sheer power of geological forces is displayed in the picture below, an area of land that was dredged up above sea level during an

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/archaeologists-disc... .... in Shanxi Province, it is being suggested, was the place where China began, around 2200BC. The capital of the Yao period has

    Still there. The above is a image of solar filaments, one taken on May 28th and the other in June, a month later. The

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/did-early-europeans... ... which comes from a paper by Polish researchers looking at Gravettian activity (in the Upper Palaeolithic). They appear to have roasted mammoth

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/fossil-from-20-foot... ... which is somewhat bigger than a modern day Great White. The vertebrai of the 20 foot shark were found in Cretaceous limestone

At www.thunderbolts.info ... Wal Thornhill has been talking about the Rosetta mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. There is also an analysis of cometary electro-chemistry by Franklin

It seems that the consensus and much quoted hypothesis that the high temperatures on Venus are the result of runaway global warming caused by lots

At http://phys.org/print353753684.html ... apparently, the moon is engulfed in a permanent, but lopsided, cloud of dust that increases in density when annual meteor showers such

Are black holes the ruthless killers we've made them out to be, a professor of physics at Ohio State University asks. The paper has been

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2015/article/the-unfolding-s... ... this is a story about El Miron cave in northern Spain (in the Cantabrian Mountains) which is currently being explored and excavated.

Alaska's glaciers are favoured by the CAGW hype industry, in particular the Juneau ice field which contains 32 of them. A claim was made recently

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3127256/Brimstone-really-DOES-li... .... a story sent in by member Gary (and can also be found at PhysOrg). The earth's core has large quantities of sulphur

Qiaomei Fu, a palaeo-genomicist (the study of ancient genomes) at a meeting in New York (see meetings.cshl.edu/abstracts/genome2015_abstract.html) said that her research team had found evidence

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/roadworks-on-greek-... ... a petrified subtropical forest has been discovered on the Aegean island of Lesvos. There was also evidence of ancient volcanism which appears

A lot of archaeology has been going on in what is modern Bulgaria. Most of the finds concern the Roman era but now and again

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32701311 (19th May 2015) the Luritja people of central Australia once told stories of a fire devil coming down from the Sun, crashing into

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia have been exploring a cave in Scotland, just to the north of Ullapool. They have

EM Smith has been looking at water vapour in the air at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/its-the-water-and-a-lot-more-vapor/ ... after sitting in his garden drinking some beer and feeling the