In the News

At http://phys.org/print340055912.html ... a number of mysterious booms have been heard in central Oklahoma - sounding much like sonic booms rather than anything under the

At http://spaceweather.com Friday January 9th (2014) it is suggested a magnetic storm hit Comet Lovejoy as activity seems to be ocurring in the blue ion

This is a post that explains homogenisation of temperature data so well, it almost blurts out of the page. Very often climate scientists pop up

At www.dailymail.co.uk/science-tech/article-2900324/Egyptian-god-s-tomb-dis... .... a purposely blackened tomb has been found in Egypt. The Daily Mail supplies some useful pictures and drawings. It was apparently dedicated

      What a beauty. Comet Lovejoy. The image is at http://spaceweather.com, January 7th - there is also a comet photo gallery to browse. Lovejoy is

AQt http://phys.org/print339753649.html ... fossils from the Early Cretaceous period can be found in some parts of the Isle of Wight - the age of the

At http://phys.org/print339745850.html ... the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected  huge x-ray from a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy.

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uoc-nrd010515.php ... we learn that the Greek village of Nicharia was untouched by the site destructions at the end of the LB age -

At http://phys.org/print339752858.html ... a Chinese and US team have found evidence that parts of Inner Mongolia that were assumed to have been desert for millions

At http://phys.org/print339747040.html .... sketchbooks from the voyage of HMS Beagle have been digitised to produce a video of pencil drawings and watercolours by Conrad Martens,

An interesting amulet has been turned up at excavations at Nea Paphos on Cyprus - see www.livescience.com/49239-ancient-amulet-palindrome-inscription.html The author of the piece is at pains

Australian long range weather forecaster, Inigo Owen Jones. (born in Croydon near London), died in 1954 and yet he was surprisingly up to date with

At http://joannenova.com.au/2015/01/is-the-sun-driving-ozone-and-changing-t... ... which is a look at the Sun, the big orb in the sky that is largely ignored by climate science. Is it

At http://phys.org/print339147471.html ... there is a fascinating abstract derived from an article in the December 23rd issue of PLOS ONE online journal, 'Implication of an

A new underground city has been found in Cappadocia, in the eastern part of what is modern Turkey - see www.hurriyetdailynews.com/massive-ancient-underground-city-discovered-in...? An early urban centre

A sudden decrease in cosmic rays bombarding the Earth's atmosphere has coincided, accidentally or otherwise, with a week or so of very cold weather. On

At www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-texas-was-bottom-sea/ ... is one of those imponderables. Guadelupe Peak, the highest mountain in Texas, looks across the jagged spine of El Capitan, which looks

At http://phys.org/print338190635.html ... is about thermoelectric power plants that seek to harvest the ocean waves by pumping cold water up through a heat exchanger  

At the site of Blick Mead near Amesbury, close to the earthwork known as Vespacian's Camp, we have a site that is revealing new information

At http://phys.org/print338201746.html ... we have one of those schoolboy visions of Venus which is mostly hypothetical but written as reality. Venus is horrible! It sucks,