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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

In an article available in pdf format to download, 'A Place for Pilgrimage: the ancient Maya sacred landscape of Cara Blanca in Belize' by Lucero

At www.livescience.com/49660-taj-mahal-gardens-align-solstice-sun.html ... the Taj Mahal in India, built by a Moghul emperor following the death of one of his wives, is aligned to sun

At http://news.yahoo.com/did-volcano-wipe-neanderthals-144225250.html ... it has been suggested a massive volcano that blew around 40,000 years ago led to the demise of the Neanderthals. Benjamin Black,

Mainstream is slowly getting its head around the idea that something peculiar happened at the end of the Bronze Age. Claude Schaeffer was making the

At www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105823127 ... we have the discovery in a cave in SW Germany of four flutes, one of which is made from the bones of

At www.q-mag.org/mega-streams-of-the-atlantic.html ... we have something that I've not seen anywhere else - somebody questioning the idea of the ocean circulation system, or how it

Yet another story on the inhabitants of Easter Island. Were they decimated as a result of rubbishing their own environment or were they blighted by

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0052-face-of-tattooed- ... the face of the Siberian princess mummified and preserved for 2500 years in permafrost on the high altitude plateau of Ukok. She

At www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-storms-expose-ancient... ... in February of last year the spring storms near Penzance in Cornwall uncovered tree stumps from between 4000 and 6000 years ago