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The humble shrew foxes climate change modellers

19 November 2014 > Archaeology
This 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
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Dark Age foxes Climate Change modellers

19 November 2014 > Archaeology
At 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
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Philae

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

15 November 2014 > Biology
Media discussions on the Rosetta mission are fond of telling us that the probe on the comet is all about studying the origins of life
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Oceanic Plates

15 November 2014 > Geology
At 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
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A summer palace in Siberia

15 November 2014 > Archaeology
At 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 > Astronomy
At 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
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Red Spot on Jupiter

15 November 2014 > Astronomy
Interesting 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 > Archaeology
At 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
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More on Kostenki

15 November 2014 > Anthropology
At 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 > Astronomy
NASA 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.
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Comet behaving like a comet

11 November 2014 > Astronomy
At 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
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galactic corpses

8 November 2014 > Astronomy
At 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
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Frozen Bison

8 November 2014 > Archaeology
At 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,
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Kostenki

8 November 2014 > Anthropology
At 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
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Going back to Comet Siding Spring's brush with Mars

7 November 2014 > Astronomy
Not 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
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Assyrian retraction

6 November 2014 > Archaeology
At 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
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How the Sun works

6 November 2014 > Astronomy
At 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
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Vanuatu

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

5 November 2014 > Archaeology
At 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
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