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Black Hole refrains from eating lunch but lets out a giant burp
7 January 2015 > AstronomyAt 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.

Greek Dark Age
7 January 2015 > AnthropologyAt 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 -

2300BC and Mongolia
7 January 2015 > CatastrophismAt 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

HMS Beagle on You Tube
7 January 2015 > Inside scienceAt 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,

ancient amulet
4 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAn 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

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

a variation on Piers
3 January 2015 > Climate changeAt 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

Dilation of Time
1 January 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

Cappadocia, Kirbet Kerak, and the mystery of the Tutankhamun mummy
31 December 2014 > ArchaeologyA 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

Forbush Decrease
30 December 2014 > AstronomyA 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

Geology is a fascinating science subject
24 December 2014 > GeologyAt 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 > PhysicsAt 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

Mesolithic Stonehenge
24 December 2014 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Venus is still mysterious
24 December 2014 > AstronomyAt 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,

Vikings in the Arctic
23 December 2014 > Climate changeAt 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

Unravelling String
23 December 2014 > Inside scienceAt 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 > AstronomyAt 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 > AstronomyThe 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

Australian Aborigine stone circle
19 December 2014 > ArchaeologyOkay, 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