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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,

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/uv-eov121514.php ... the discovery of Viking activity in northern Canada is not exactly something new. However, the latest finds have hit the archaeological headlines

At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/string-theory-about-unravel-180953... ... the String Theory hypothesis has been around for 30 years - and nobody has really been able to get to grips with

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-440 ... we have this picture of the Sun X-rays streaming off the Sun. This is the first picture of the Sun by NASAs

    these beautiful cloud formations are visible inside the Arctic Circle, floating in the lower stratosphere at 25km high - and they are full of

The Horse Head nebula as once seen and diffused by NASA but here it is again, diffused by infra red see http://phys.org/print338453527.html

Okay, the political correct are comparing a circle of waist high stones with Stonehenge but this is Auntie - what do you expect. At www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15098959

This is an old post but worth looking at again. At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age... ... is about a laser scan of some of the sarsens that revealed

At www.sciencenews.org/article/super-typhoon-shoved-supersized-boulder ... we learn that the devastating typhoon that struck the Philippines in November of last year (2013)was so powerful a wave pushed a

At www.sciencenews.org/article/rosetta-may-have-spotted-comet's-primordial-... ... the rugged terrain of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was the subject of a talk at the 2014 AGU annual meeting in San Francisco (December,

A book is now available, 'Bankrupting Physics: how today's top scientists are gambling away scientific credibility' and is written by Alexander Unzicker and Shiella Jones.

NASA, on 16th December, in a news release, said that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, at the edge of the solar system, had experienced three shock

The pyramids of Teotihuacan, located just outside modern Mexico City, is a vast complex that was abandoned for over 1000 years when the Aztecs migrated

At http://phys.org/print338024091.html ... below is an image of cliffs on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, processed by one Stuart Atkinson. The cliff is nearly verticle    See also

At http://phys.org/print338021988.html ... hydrogen rich waters have been discovered deep underground in different locations around the world - including Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. This

Tim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/a-christmas-recipe-for-snow/ ... makes the point the Sudden Stratospheric Warming events show that the polar vortex is an electro magnetic phenomenon in that

Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, known also as 67P, is almost as black as coal - but images show it as grey - see http://phys.org/print337631011.html ... This