In the News

At http://phys.org/print322989757.html ... physicist James Fransen of the University of Maryland has a paper in New Journal of Physics in which he claims he has

At http://spaceweather.com ... the site is updated daily and is  always worth a brief snatch of your attention. Today it has a video of sprites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 209 (2010) page 30-42 is an article on the age and migration of dunes in Antarctica - they are thought

Following on from yesterday, this story can also be seen at http://phys.org/print322808453.html --- and comes with some nice images. Stone chambered tombs in the northern

At http://phys.org/print322807085.html ... anomalous amounts of nitrogen detected in the atmosphere of Titan have caused some scientists to have a rethink. Does it indicate Titan's

Dr Daniel Brown of Nottingham Trent University is intending to bring archaeo-astronomy out from the shadows of the controversies engendered by Alexander Thom and an

At http://phys.org/print322466839.html ... a new slant on that story famously told by Herodotus. Egyptologist Olaf Kapar has a theory that has a ring of truth

The European Space Agency (ESA) is studying Earth's magnetic field - from space (see http://phys.org/print322463763.html). Meanwhile, NASA is organising a mission to Titan, the largest

Churyumov Gerasimenko is a comet named after two Russian observers. It sparked into life in April and early May but the comet has now gone

At http://phys.org/print322472069.html ... a team of astrophysicists who proclaimed a month or so back they had made a breakthrough in  confirmation of the Big Bang

Rens Van Der Sluijs has two posts at Thunderbolts this week. At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/06/19/plasma-in-the-ice-age/ ... he refers to two engraved pendants fashioned out of reindeer bone

Renewables are under development all the time. The cost of building wind farms, and installing concrete bases and access roads, and a general disturbance of

The Times of July 26th 1970 reported on findings by a group of French oceanographers, and this was that the Atlantic was much smaller in

At http://phys.org/print322235628.html ... an ESA Herschel image of the Helix Nebula has found some interesting molecules - the OH+ molecular ion which is a requirement

Dark matter meets catastrophism - courtesy of Harvard University researchers. At http://phys.org/print322123461.html ... a new theory is being aired and it involves a disc of

At www.livescience.com/46335-remains-of-ancient-egypt-epidemic-found.html ... is a report on bodies covered in a thick layer of lime found in Egypt. Lime was used to disinfect disease ridden

At http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/03/16/G33117.1.abstract ... we have a large body of sand in the northern region of the North Sea basin which is described as extrusive. Where

At http://phys.org/print321534287.html ... according to recent CAGW hype we should all be scared - the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting. In reality the problem

At www.spaceweather.com on Monday 16th June (2014)  a summer sun halo.    If you want to know when earth facing sun spots are despatching CMEs

Go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-carnegie-curve/ ... it seems scientists were looking at electricity in the atmosphere and on the Earth a hundred years ago - and an