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This is a tale of two takes on a single paper in Nature journal (Feb 25th 2015) and the press release can be read at

At http://phys.org/print344070295.html ... more on the mysterious craters in Siberia. Global warming is blamed. Huffington Post - complete with all the scaries and some really

   This is an image of a clay tablet with cuneiform writing, as practised in ancient Babylonia. The said tablet is one of over a

At www.livescience.com/49937-ancient-reptile-tracks-mass-extinction.html ... we are told the end of Permian mass extinction event may even have wiped out marine worms and other burrowing creatures that

Yes, shortly after Big Bang, a mere 900 million miles away, a huge quasar formed - with a central supermassive black hold for company -

Seems like two consensus theories are now in a head lock, being used as a battering ram in support of each other. Gary Gilligan forwarded

At www.q-mag.org/the-age-of-water-on-earth.html ... the question as to whether water is abundant in the universe has been on the mind of scientists for a long time

This is a photograph of the tell, Tall el-Hamman, which may be identified with Biblical Sodom, destroyed by a cosmic event of some kind. It

An article in February's Down to Earth (geology magazine), issue 90, ISSN 0969-3408 ... concerns discoveries in chalk quarries over the years. Most finds are

At http://spaceweather.com ... track back to the page for February 19th. Here we find a story of a small comet, barely noticed, that went around

At http://phys.org/print343503264.html ... the question is asked - does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geological upheavals? What might we make of that. Well, it

Bob Johnson's talk at the SIS Spring Meeting in Watford will be . The Variability of the Sun and the Effects on Earth. In other

This is the year of a big earthquake in the central Mediterranean area, an earthquake that produced a tsunami wave that caused widespread destruction as

The mystery of the balls of metals found on the ocean floor are baffling scientists, we are being told at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2957453/What-mystery-alien-balls... A remote camera revealed

An interesting story at http://phys.org/print343307323.html ... plumes seen rising from Mars, high above the surface. On two occasions amateur astronomers reported the plumes. Now, NASA

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/earths-core-has-a-differentia... ... seismic soundings are said to have provided new information on the nature of Earth's core. Chinese and US scientists collaborated in the

At http://phys.org/print342714242.html ... the Joumlkuka Fjoumllum river in the Joumlkuka rgljnafur canyon in Icelkand was formed in a matter of days by extreme flooding events

Modern civilisation is a civilisation of petroleum. Some people think it is a simple thing to shut off the pumps and close down the pipelines

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/10/another-settled-science-topic-is-n... .... the settled science of global warming/climate change has another bedfellow (they are being collected in droves)  as the settled science of Big

I don't know what it is with NASA news releases that compare astronomical features with food and eating disorders but here we have another one