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At http://phys.org/print341045140.html ... evidence is said to exist that our galaxy could be a huge wormhole - but not everyone would agree (even physicists). The

At http://phys.org/print341136762.html ... cosmic magnetic fields is the subject here and something called 'Weibel filamentation instabilities' - a plasma instability present in homogenous, or nearly

At http://phys.org/print341155255.html ... the journal Science, January 23rd, has published four articles on the Rosetta Mission - so get down to WH Smith's. Mind you,

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-029 ... NASA writers are telling us that Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is gushing water vapour into space - and it has been increasing in volume.

This is an interesting one as uranium isotopes are used to date rocks and float the geochronological time span. The story is at http://phys.org/print340960522.html ...

Comet Lovejoy is currently visible in binoculars as a greenish blob approaching the Pleiades, east of Orion. We now have a second comet that has

At http://phys.org/print340626087.html ... milking cows has been going on in Ireland for 6000 years. Traces of dairy fats have been discovered on pottery dating from

At http://chauvetdreams.co.uk/2014/07/70000-year-old-african-settlement-une... .... it seems, not just Neanderthals were being underestimated but Middle Palaeolithic people in Africa as well. People were living in a village

At http://phys.org/print340618543.html ... the accepted theory on what causes plankton blooms is under attack by a marine botanist. Currently, a phyto plankton hot spot in

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uom-ydd011415.php ... it seems there is less and less, and even less to distinguish between Neanderthal craftsmanship and cognizant ability, and those of modern

At http://westerndigs.org/mesoamerican-fools-gold-mirrors-found-in-arizona-... ... a link between Arizona and central Mexico in pre colonial times has been established by various artefacts. The latest exmaples are some

At www.q-mag.org/moss-betrays-the-season-of-the-storegga-event/ ... which is the well known Storegga tsunami that was triggered by a submarine landslide in the upper portion of the North Sea,

At http://phys.org/print340359127.html ... we learn that the Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, otherwise known as 67P, has been displaying evidence of multiple jets of dust

At the English language German blog of Pierre Gosselin another scale falls from the eye. Yes, a bit of a humdinger this one - broken

On January 26th an asteroid will pass within 3 times the distance of the Earth from the Moon - not exactly a close shave (see

At http://phys.org/print339925008.html ... we have a fascinating story, rock art that depicts people swimming (a sort of dog paddle) - in one of the dryest

During the last interglacial, herewith dated 125,000 years ago average global temperatures, it is said, were not a lot different than today - yet large

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141207091648.htm ... and is about advances made in solar panels in Australia. It involves focussed sunlight. This will make the photo

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150108084903.htm ... we learn that maize was domesticated from wild teosinte grasses in southern Mexico and can be tracked into the American SW, using

  At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/unmasking-ugandas-r... ... rock art in Uganda, dating, it is thought, between 3000BC and 400AD (or thereabouts) appear to be the product of herding