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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

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