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The New York Times, March 11th (sent in by a US member) had a short piece on DNA studies of the Armenian people of the

Meanwhile, we had comets and meteor dust in AD536 - and now we have a catastrophic end to the Late Bronze Age. The article is

I've already done this story but it has popped up again as New Scientist is offering it as a free to download article in order

At www.space.com/29067-chiron-centaur-asteroid-comet-rings.html ... astronomers have spotted rings around the huge space rock Chiron. For the possible significance of this asteroid see Clube and Napier -

At http://phys.org/print348212853.html ... we learn that magnetic field data collected by the Philae lander and transferred back to Rosetta shows the comet itself is not

At www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art523965-archaeol... ... and see also www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/oaeast-news/369-archaeologists-uncover-ol... ... during a pre-construction survey of a pipeline project in Essex archaeologists came across cremated (burnt) bones dating

At http://phys.org/print348319050.html ... some upside down thinking has been set the right way up as a result of field studies conducted by Cardiff University. Icebergs

At http://phys.org/print348140840.html ... a rib tickler from climate change troughers feeding on the public teat that was predictably broadcast loud and clear by the BBC

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the issue, March 2011 (and have another look at that date, 2011 - not 2015) and scroll down to page

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/carver-mead-coherent-science/ ... in this post Tim Cullen is something in awe of a scientist. Carver Mead is something special though as he has an

Tim Cullen again, at his scintillating best, cutting a swathe through the settled science paradigm - and this time it is Brownian motion (all the

Another piece of settled science bashing from the baneful keyboard of Tim Cullen at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/the-society-for-the-detection... ... the missing world, in this instance, being an object

William Thompson and Donald Billings, 'Observations Bearing on the Kippenhahn-Schluter Quiescent Prominence Model' (1967) Astrophysical Journal volume 149 page 269-273 - see http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1967Apj...149..269T/0000270.000.... ... William

Peter M James second article at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (March issue, page 87-98) is interesting but we need to bear in mind he is not an archaeologist

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the March 2015 issue and scroll down to page 98, near the bottom. Mikhal Kovalyov and S Kovalyov published a

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the March issue at the top and scroll down to page 98. RT Cahill of Flinders University in Adelaide published

At http://phys.org/print347781194.html ... I suppose it was bound to happen. Following a cluster of studies that have shown Neanderthals were not the stupid backward mugglewups

Boabs grow native to Africa and Madagascar - and a single relative thrives in the Kimberley region of NW Australia. How did boabs reach Australia?

At http://phys.org/print347613455.html ... Mars not only has polar ice caps but has glaciers elsewhere too - in both hemispheres. These glaciers have until now been

This is a classic piece of geology as sink holes can pop up anywhere and usually have a reason, quite often due to human action