In the News

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/09/22/4080301.htm ... we have Polynesians (the Lapita culture) arriving in Vanuatu around 3000 years ago. Was this migration spurred on by events in the

At http://phys.org/print330680543.html ... asks, what is the difference between a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a solar flare. NASA has produced a video that explains

This might go down like a lead balloon but a physics professor in the US, Laura Mersini-Houghton, has proven, mathematically, that black holes can never

We have had cave artists from the Palaeolithic era (during the Ice Age) obsessed with the Pleiades and the Hyades. Now we have evidence of

Croagh Patrick, on the west coast of Ireland, has a dramatic near perfect pyramidal form which is especially impressive when viewed from inland with the

  At www.livescience.com/39117-navajo-sandstone-dunes-jurassic-earthquake.html ... Utah has some spectacular geology - not least the remarkable sandstone formation above, found in the Zion National Park. These are

At http://phys.org/print330336215.html ... we have some nice images of a pock marked surface of Mars provided by ESAs spacecraft the Mars Express. These have of

Rens van der Sluijs has a look at Hebrew myths at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/09/16/19/lost-for-words-part-one/ ... and how they affect tribal myths as a result of missionary activity

Channel 4's TV show on 'The Hidden Landscape Project' at Stonehenge (part two) came up with some fascinating insights today - plus a lot of

At www.livescience.com/47835-massive-5-000-year-old-stone-monument-revealed... ... located 8 miles north of the Sea of Galilee a massive structure, compose of 500.000 cubic feet of stone and at a

This is another consensus theory that is defended to the death. At http://phys.org/print330157486.html ... what kick started Plate Tectonics? Apparently the consensus theory has no

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/hms-nba091514.php ... we have a story from an article in the September 18th Nature which is telling us that European genes contain northern Eurasian

At www.spaceweather.com September 18th .... on the 12th a CME hit Earth's magnetic field igniting an intense geomagnetic storm - and providing England with a

At http://phys.org/print330072076.html ... an article in the journal Geology claims the Gulf Stream still flowed into the Nordic seas during the coldest parts of the

Various explanations for the presence of what look like ripples or creases in sedimentary rocks have been proposed over the years. Some see them as

At http://cosmictusk.com/university-of-chicago-nanodiamonds-prove-cosmic-im... ... which is a reference to the recent Younger Dryas event. The same story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/11/microscopic-diamonds-suggest-cosmi... ... where the first comments become

In this instance, mainstream theory is being revised in a mainstream kind of way - the story is at http://phys.org/print329398219.html According to researchers in a

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/12/un-global-warming-propaganda-campa... ... the attempt to keep the CAGW bandwagon rolling is changing tack as we approach this year's Climate Summit in New York, the

George Howard takes another pop at Phil Plait and his 'consensus science rules' blog after he had a go at Chandra Wickramasinghe and the theory

At http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/09/egyptian-mammals.html ... a paper in PNAS (Sept 8th 2014) sets out to assemble a record of large mammals living in the Nile Valley -