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The humble shrew foxes climate change modellers
19 November 2014 > ArchaeologyThis story is at http://phys.org/print335546019.html ... a professor of geological science at the University of Oregon has said that the fossil record of five mammal

Dark Age foxes Climate Change modellers
19 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://phys.org/print335450652.html ... and http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/17/climate-change-was-not-to-blame-fo... ... does not concern the end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Western Asia but concerns the end

Philae
19 November 2014 > AstronomyThe ROSETTA Mission that landed a 220lb probe, the Philae, on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko was a remarkable engineering and technological feat by the ESA. It

Building Blocks of Life
15 November 2014 > BiologyMedia discussions on the Rosetta mission are fond of telling us that the probe on the comet is all about studying the origins of life

Oceanic Plates
15 November 2014 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print335167915.html ... it is said that the continental margins on either side of the Atlantic Ocean are thinner than expected and a paper in

A summer palace in Siberia
15 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0009-who-built-this... .... we lean that a palace complex on an island in a lake in southern Siberia dates back 1300 years. Known as Por-Bajin
What makes hail stones
15 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print335198820.html ... hailstones in storms can for around biological material that is swept up and bounced around clouds. In the process they pick up

Red Spot on Jupiter
15 November 2014 > AstronomyInteresting link considering what has been alleged of the red spot in Velikovskian literature. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-391 ... Jupiter's red spot is not another Venus in
Roman era god in stone
15 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141110083519.htm ... a Roman relief depicts an unknown deity at a sanctuary in Asia Minor....... It is five feet high and made from a

More on Kostenki
15 November 2014 > AnthropologyAt http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141106-european-dna-foss... ... here is another post on the DNA extracted from a Palaeolithic European in Russia and clarifies the findings more transparently than earlier
Bolide Events 1994-2013
15 November 2014 > AstronomyNASA released the map below that reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with a random distribution around the world.

Comet behaving like a comet
11 November 2014 > AstronomyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/11/mars-once-in-a-million-years-comet... ... is another report on the NASA release on Comet Siding Spring from data produced by their MAVEN mission to Mars. Debris from

galactic corpses
8 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print334486790.html ... we learn there is a mystery at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It has lots of gas, dust, and

Frozen Bison
8 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/sovp-c9y102714.php ... a steppe bison has been found in eastern Siberia, in a frozen state. It is almost intact and has a complete brain,

Kostenki
8 November 2014 > AnthropologyAt http://phys.org/print334503335.html ... we have a DNA study that seems to overturn another one a few months ago, or rather, it introduces some factors which

Going back to Comet Siding Spring's brush with Mars
7 November 2014 > AstronomyNot a lot of information has come out of NASA on the recent close passage to Mars by Comet Siding Spring. However, at www.spaceweather.com on

Assyrian retraction
6 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://phys.org/print334402312.html ... an article in the journal Climate Change claims drought was responsible for the decline of the Assyrian Empire in the second half

How the Sun works
6 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print334398305.html ... we have an ultra violet image taken by the IRIS mission showing a network of solar jets. The journal Science has several

Vanuatu
6 November 2014 > GeologyThe volcanic island of Vanuatu in New Caledonia is prone to earthquakes and is positioned near an ocean trench - or fault. Scientists and geologists

Big Wave in Oman
5 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.timesofoman.com/News/42136/Article-Mega-wave-hit-Omans-coast-4-500-y... ... which is roughly contemporary the 2300BC event (nuances in dating methodology, changes as a result of calibration etc). The tsunami wave washed