In the News

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

At http://phys.org/print353228554.html .... French researchers have created a computer model that is meant to explain the massive heat in the Sun's corona. Apparently, solar physicists

The same issue of British Archaeology magazine, June 2015 (see www.britisharchaeology.org/bmpdupdate) has an article on Blick Mead, fleshing out what has been discovered at the

The Philae Lander that was positioned on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko has woken from its slumber and is now in contact with mother ship, Rosetta(according to BBC

This is basically an update on a post already done some weeks ago. It is derived from British Archaeology magazine of June 2015 which has

La Marmotta harbours a Neolithic settlement, submerged in the waters of Lake Bracciano 57km north of Rome. The emperor Trajan had an aqueduct built to

Going back to yesterday's climate change news and the new model analysis in a paper in the journal Science, we may note that NOAA has

At www.couriermail.com.au/technology/science/aussie-student-proves-existenc... ...   Cleo Loi, a student at the University of Sydney, has found that by using telescopes in a certain way she could

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-soporific-sound-of-settled... ... if you like choo choo trains and puffing billies have a look at Tim Cullen's post this week. He uses videos of

At http://geology.com/articles/arctic-ocean-features/ ...    a picture of the Arctic Ocean sea floor showing basins and ridges etc. How would it have looked when sea levels

There I was a couple of days ago saying that mainstream climate science had accepted there was a hiatus or pause in global warming and

Tim Cullen has another cracker at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/the-ice-age-is-coming/ ... where the Ice Age refers to the assumption inter glacials last around 10,000 years in duration -

At www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/pdf/Lika_sideways_SC.pdf ... by Madhulika Guhathakurta and Tony Phillips (published in Space Weather, May 2013) and concerns the 11 year solar cycle (which was discovered

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-lovejoy-meltdown/ .... Tim Cullen has sparked interest in this offering as his article (see the link) has been reproduced elsewhere on the blogosphere -

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/why-phi-mars-earth-model-and-... .... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/why-phi-a-jupiter-venus-mercu... ... Roger Tall Bloke and guests (such as Old Brew) have been discussing, over the years, the link up between

At http://phys.org/print352015312.html ... it was the failure of the New Orleans levee system that caused the city to flood after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The

  at http://phys.org/print352105901.html ... we have an image of giant filaments on the face of the Sun. Filaments are said to be cooler clouds of