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Black Hole refrains from eating lunch but lets out a giant burp

7 January 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print339745850.html ... the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected  huge x-ray from a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Greek Dark Age

7 January 2015 > Anthropology
At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uoc-nrd010515.php ... we learn that the Greek village of Nicharia was untouched by the site destructions at the end of the LB age -
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2300BC and Mongolia

7 January 2015 > Catastrophism
At http://phys.org/print339752858.html ... a Chinese and US team have found evidence that parts of Inner Mongolia that were assumed to have been desert for millions
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HMS Beagle on You Tube

7 January 2015 > Inside science
At http://phys.org/print339747040.html .... sketchbooks from the voyage of HMS Beagle have been digitised to produce a video of pencil drawings and watercolours by Conrad Martens,
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ancient amulet

4 January 2015 > Archaeology
An interesting amulet has been turned up at excavations at Nea Paphos on Cyprus - see www.livescience.com/49239-ancient-amulet-palindrome-inscription.html The author of the piece is at pains
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Inigo Owen Jones, weather prophet

3 January 2015 > Climate change
Australian long range weather forecaster, Inigo Owen Jones. (born in Croydon near London), died in 1954 and yet he was surprisingly up to date with
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a variation on Piers

3 January 2015 > Climate change
At http://joannenova.com.au/2015/01/is-the-sun-driving-ozone-and-changing-t... ... which is a look at the Sun, the big orb in the sky that is largely ignored by climate science. Is it
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Dilation of Time

1 January 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print339147471.html ... there is a fascinating abstract derived from an article in the December 23rd issue of PLOS ONE online journal, 'Implication of an
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Cappadocia, Kirbet Kerak, and the mystery of the Tutankhamun mummy

31 December 2014 > Archaeology
A new underground city has been found in Cappadocia, in the eastern part of what is modern Turkey - see www.hurriyetdailynews.com/massive-ancient-underground-city-discovered-in...? An early urban centre
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Forbush Decrease

30 December 2014 > Astronomy
A sudden decrease in cosmic rays bombarding the Earth's atmosphere has coincided, accidentally or otherwise, with a week or so of very cold weather. On
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Geology is a fascinating science subject

24 December 2014 > Geology
At www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-texas-was-bottom-sea/ ... is one of those imponderables. Guadelupe Peak, the highest mountain in Texas, looks across the jagged spine of El Capitan, which looks

Energy systems

24 December 2014 > Physics
At http://phys.org/print338190635.html ... is about thermoelectric power plants that seek to harvest the ocean waves by pumping cold water up through a heat exchanger  
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Mesolithic Stonehenge

24 December 2014 > Archaeology
At the site of Blick Mead near Amesbury, close to the earthwork known as Vespacian's Camp, we have a site that is revealing new information
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Venus is still mysterious

24 December 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print338201746.html ... we have one of those schoolboy visions of Venus which is mostly hypothetical but written as reality. Venus is horrible! It sucks,
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Vikings in the Arctic

23 December 2014 > Climate change
At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/uv-eov121514.php ... the discovery of Viking activity in northern Canada is not exactly something new. However, the latest finds have hit the archaeological headlines
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Unravelling String

23 December 2014 > Inside science
At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/string-theory-about-unravel-180953... ... the String Theory hypothesis has been around for 30 years - and nobody has really been able to get to grips with

Sizzling Sun

23 December 2014 > Astronomy
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-440 ... we have this picture of the Sun X-rays streaming off the Sun. This is the first picture of the Sun by NASAs

Polar Stratospheric Clouds

23 December 2014 > Astronomy
    these beautiful cloud formations are visible inside the Arctic Circle, floating in the lower stratosphere at 25km high - and they are full of

Horse Head

23 December 2014 > Astronomy
The Horse Head nebula as once seen and diffused by NASA but here it is again, diffused by infra red see http://phys.org/print338453527.html
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Australian Aborigine stone circle

19 December 2014 > Archaeology
Okay, the political correct are comparing a circle of waist high stones with Stonehenge but this is Auntie - what do you expect. At www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15098959
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