In the News

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

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