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Milton Zysman, when discussing extinction events, said that around 30,000 years ago (please note modern calculations are anything between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago) the

Baker's Hole at Ebbsfleet in Kent is an old chalk quarry situated next to a big railway station on HS1 and contains sediments going 250,000

At http://phys.org/print335689483.html ... the spacecraft is still orbiting the comet but is not in contact with the probe. However, it is able to continue with

At http://phys.org/print335727974.html ... builders in Everett, Washington State, came across the boulder 30 feet beneath the ground - a rather large pebble   It is

Humans have been present on the high Tibetan plateau for at least 20,000 years and permanent villages have been there since 3200BC. Solid evidence of

Euan Mackie in an article, 'Can European Prehistory Detect Large Scale Natural Disasters?' came up with an interesting solution to the mystery of the vitrified

The Mesolithic community discovered by a team of divers off Bouldnor Cliff on the Isle of Wight is being eroded away - by the actions

At https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2014/11/climate-scams-melt... ... a marine biologist and environmentalist disagrees with the Green Blob - see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/walter-starck-the-climate-scam... ..... which is lifted from Quadrant. An interesting

Several stories on the recent finding that plants suck up lots of co2 and when the crops are grown and then cut a lot of

At http://phys.org/print335611854.html ... and sent in by Gary, the same story is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2841829/The-largest-landslide-Earth Researchers-reveal-ground-really-did-Utah-21-million-years-ago-shifting 55-MILES-minutes-killing-path.html ... which has more pictures and a map that

At http://phys.org/print335609396.html ... we are told the Sun may be playing a part in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth by temporarily bending the

We all know what the Romans did for us - they created the border between Scotland and England. What did gravity do for us? It

This story is at http://phys.org/print335546019.html ... a professor of geological science at the University of Oregon has said that the fossil record of five mammal

At http://phys.org/print335450652.html ... and http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/17/climate-change-was-not-to-blame-fo... ... does not concern the end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Western Asia but concerns the end

The ROSETTA Mission that landed a 220lb probe, the Philae, on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko was a remarkable engineering and technological feat by the ESA. It

Media discussions on the Rosetta mission are fond of telling us that the probe on the comet is all about studying the origins of life

At http://phys.org/print335167915.html ... it is said that the continental margins on either side of the Atlantic Ocean are thinner than expected and a paper in

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0009-who-built-this... .... we lean that a palace complex on an island in a lake in southern Siberia dates back 1300 years. Known as Por-Bajin

At http://phys.org/print335198820.html ... hailstones in storms can for around biological material that is swept up and bounced around clouds. In the process they pick up

Interesting link considering what has been alleged of the red spot in Velikovskian literature. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-391 ... Jupiter's red spot is not another Venus in