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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

The British Museum now have the hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins found in a field in the UK (at Lenborough). Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JrYoolJzs or the same

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/nannofossils-from-e... ... concerns the origin of the Canary Islands - which are, like the Hawaian islands, located in the middle of a plate rather

At http://phys.org/print342359840.html .... a German cosmologist says the theory of the quantum mode of structure in the universe has been confirmed - even proved. However,

This is one of those subjects where one side has the upper hand for a while and then another point of view prevails. At http://dienekes.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2015-01300

At http://phys.org/news/2015-02-closer-view-ceres-multiple-white.html ... we have some images of Ceres from a distance of 90,000 miles away.     Ceres is either a dwarf planet or a