In the News

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

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141110083519.htm ... a Roman relief depicts an unknown deity at a sanctuary in Asia Minor....... It is five feet high and made from a

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141106-european-dna-foss... ... here is another post on the DNA extracted from a Palaeolithic European in Russia and clarifies the findings more transparently than earlier

NASA released the map below that reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with a random distribution around the world.

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/11/mars-once-in-a-million-years-comet... ... is another report on the NASA release on Comet Siding Spring from data produced by their MAVEN mission to Mars. Debris from

At http://phys.org/print334486790.html ... we learn there is a mystery at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It has lots of gas, dust, and

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/sovp-c9y102714.php ... a steppe bison has been found in eastern Siberia, in a frozen state. It is almost intact and has a complete brain,

At http://phys.org/print334503335.html ... we have a DNA study that seems to overturn another one a few months ago, or rather, it introduces some factors which

Not a lot of information has come out of NASA on the recent close passage to Mars by Comet Siding Spring. However, at www.spaceweather.com on

At http://phys.org/print334402312.html ... an article in the journal Climate Change claims drought was responsible for the decline of the Assyrian Empire in the second half

At http://phys.org/print334398305.html ... we have an ultra violet image taken by the IRIS mission showing a network of solar jets. The journal Science has several

The volcanic island of Vanuatu in New Caledonia is prone to earthquakes and is positioned near an ocean trench - or fault. Scientists and geologists

At www.timesofoman.com/News/42136/Article-Mega-wave-hit-Omans-coast-4-500-y... ... which is roughly contemporary the 2300BC event (nuances in dating methodology, changes as a result of calibration etc). The tsunami wave washed

At http://phys.org/print333876505.html ... in 2029, the asteroid Apophis is due to pass within 35,000km of the Earth - which is fairly close. What effect will

A new paper by John McLean of the James Cook University (Australia), a professor of physics, has appeared in the open access journal Atmospheric and

at www.geocurrents.info/physical-geography/eco-authoritarian-catastrophism-... ... which is a review of a book written by some bigwigs in the Climate Change community and a geography teacher is left

Cave Hill dominates a portion of the landscape in the northern part of Belfast - see Down to Earth magazine issue 89, 2014 (ISSN 0969-3408)