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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.

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 -

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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