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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

Tim Cullen has another cracker at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/the-ice-age-is-coming/ ... where the Ice Age refers to the assumption inter glacials last around 10,000 years in duration -

At www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/pdf/Lika_sideways_SC.pdf ... by Madhulika Guhathakurta and Tony Phillips (published in Space Weather, May 2013) and concerns the 11 year solar cycle (which was discovered

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-lovejoy-meltdown/ .... Tim Cullen has sparked interest in this offering as his article (see the link) has been reproduced elsewhere on the blogosphere -

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/why-phi-mars-earth-model-and-... .... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/why-phi-a-jupiter-venus-mercu... ... Roger Tall Bloke and guests (such as Old Brew) have been discussing, over the years, the link up between

At http://phys.org/print352015312.html ... it was the failure of the New Orleans levee system that caused the city to flood after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The

  at http://phys.org/print352105901.html ... we have an image of giant filaments on the face of the Sun. Filaments are said to be cooler clouds of

  The Orion molecular cloud  see http://phys.org/print352106488.html. It seems observations from the Herschel space observatory has revealed our galaxy is threaded with filamentary structures on

At http://phys.org/print352044807.html ... many living things can signal to electric fields, either moving or using them to detect prey or enemies. Weak electric fields may

At http://phys.org/print352011250.html ... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/global-climate-on-the-verge-o... ... we see that it has taken a decade for the consensus climate people to admit global warming has stalled

                                 at http://phys.org/print352052895.html ... NASAs Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a new image of the surface of Ceres, the so called dwarf planet - otherwise

At http://phys.org/print351971891.html ...   in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a far away galaxy an extra-galactic jet of ejected plasma is seen to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/28/study-finds-severe-cold-snap-durin... ... this piece was on Phys Org a few days ago and has now popped up at Anthony's place. Scientists in Frankfurt, Germany,

At http://phys.org/print321252239.html ... an international team of geoscientists have published a paper in Nature Communications (May, 2015) which they hope will revolve one of the

The drought in some parts of Texas and the southern Plains has dramatically come to an end with huge thunderstorms and lashing rain last weekend

  This is an image of the nature and size of the Rift Valley from a position in Sinai and looking across the Gulf of

At www.spaceweather.com ... the start of the noctilucent cloud season - see below for the view above Scotland   Earth orbiting satellites have been photographing