In the News

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/chinas-mysterious-s... ... strange ritual sites in NW China (spilling over into Mongolia) appear to go back to 2500BC - the same age as Egypt's

At http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2015/03/27/bolivia-detect... ... we have all heard of Tiahuanaco, high in the Andes, and its mysterious ruins - now a buried pyramid is thought to

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn27275-thye-moons-got-two-tails-and its-friends-might-too.html .... member Gary Gilligan sent in this piece he spotted at New Scientist this week. The Moon has got two tails. One

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/geomagnetism-jerk-excursion-rpi-... ... we have some interesting information where science is at a boundary of knowledge and is in the process of changing its mind.

At http://phys.org/print346519189.html ... the search for water continues. We now have former lakes in craters - and two episodes of water related activity on Mars.

Are flies vermin? Velikovsky accused this humble insect of being vermin and in the right circumstances they are - blue bottles especially. However, they also

At http://phys.org/print346399429.html ... people were hunting horses and camels 13,300 years ago (in N America) - prior to the Younger Dryas event. For some reason

At http://phys.org/print346320029.html ... the story is initially about the discovery of a new virus on the ocean floor. Research now brings into the open various

Somebody told me about this, as she had been to a geological meeting with her son where they were showing off a sample of plastic

A study published in the journal Nature shows observational evidence that a supermassive black hole at the heart of a huge galaxy can power huge

At http://phys.org/print346495927.html ... flows of electrically charged ions and electrons accelerate along Jupiter's magnetic field lines (fountain like blue curves) ... see below   ...

George Howard has uploaded an interesting video at http://cosmictusk.com/common-culture-embraces-the-younger-dryas-boundary... ... which is worth watching. When did civilisation really begin?

This is the underground safe house created in Cappadocia. Was it designed in fear of cosmic catastrophism - or was it designed as a safe

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/03/23/worlds-largest-asteroid-impacts-fo... ... a cosmic object created a 400km wide impact zone in Australia's Warburton Basin. Apparently, the crater had disappeared - but geophysicists have

At http://phys.org/print346054232.html ... Fongliang He and a research team have been looking at what causes trees to flourish and prosper - or struggle to reach

At http://phys.org/print346044381.html ... molecular nitrogen has been detected on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko by instruments onboard the Rosetta spacecraft Molecular nitrogen is thought to have been the

The image below shows x-rays streaming off the Sun as seen by NASAs NuSTAR telescope array system. Se http://phys.org/print346063299.html ...    scientists are trying to

This story was also in the latest issue of the journal Geology and is interesting as it raises questions about the Milankovitch theory of climate

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150320112332.htm ... we have 'did a volcanic cataclysm 40,000 years ago, trigger the final demise of the Neanderthals?' - which is a paper just

The latest Thunderbolts video is something of a beauty - dust in the atmosphere of Mars, and aurorae. Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KVV-hob3e4&feature_youtu.be