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At www.livescience.com/46292-hidden-ocean-locked-in-earth-mantle.html ... there is a report on another study that has found an awful lot of potential water between the Mantle and the crust.

There is quite a bit of published material on prehistoric roads and tracks nowadays and it is generally though they originated as animal tracks followed

Major new climate change project by Dr David Evans - see http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/big-news-part-i-historic-development-ne... ... produced without any funding whatsoever (apart from personal donations). No government handouts

An interesting post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/6/13/the-inhumanity-of-the-environmentalis... ... which is a bit political - but raises an interesting issue. Does opposition to genetically modified food, which is

At http://phys.org/print321643387.html ... we are told the cosmologists may have certain astronomical ideas wrong - and they require adjusting. In other words, the whole kaboosh

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/12/climate-change-its-the-motions-of-... .... there is an interesting paper in the journal Science that claims a link between climate change and ocean currents over the past

At http://notrickszone.com/2014/06/09/giant-of-geologyglaciology-christian-... ... and sidestepping the blowback and snake oil of climate science, Christian Schluechter has some interesting things to say about glaciers in the

Very low frequency magnetic pulses have been observed in the run-up to earthquakes since the 1960s. Now, geophysicists claim they have discovered how rocks produce

This is another example of the uniformitarian mind. The findings, however, should not be dismissed - as they are telling us something. The story is

We've had evidence of a long occupation at Inverness and now a similar discovery has been found at Aberdeen - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/bronze-age-settleme... Early Bronze Age

Here's one for the kiddies - and the twinkle in the eyes. Chinese researchers have come across a cache of hundreds of pterosaur eggs -

This story is at http://phys.org/print321105310.html ... a new study of supermassive black holes has found magnetic fields play a prominent role in proceedings. This was

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/06052014/article/archaeologists-exc... ... surprisingly, the lower city of Mycenae has never properly been investigated. This is the town outside the citadel with its Lion Gate

At http://cosmictusk.com/big-burn-north-american-great-plains-underlain-by-... ... George Howard provides the full paper to read (published in Nature Geoscience on May 25th, 2014. It is five pages long and

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/lenr-year-of-answers/ ... 2014 is likely to be important for Cold Fusion (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors or LENR) according to www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/15/cold-fusion-moves-into-mainstream  ... but strangely, since

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/05/chinese-study-implies-that-the-mod... ... is this another instance of Chinese science overtaking Western science. The latter has become bogged down in peer review and political shenanigans,

I think I might have done this story before - but due to another published paper. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/05/when-worlds-collide-study-says-our... ... we learn that a new bout

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2647295/Water-didnt-carve-Mars-c... ... basically, a group of scientists are saying water did not carve out the canyons on Mars. This idea is in fact relatively

At http://westerndigs.org/13500-year-old-tool-making-site-uncovered-in-idah... ... an archaeological site on a river bank in Idaho has come upon evidence of humans living there 13,500 years ago - in

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-171 (see also www.nasa.gov/kepler and http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/). A rocky planet weiging 17 times as much as the Earth but just over twice the size is