In the News

At www.sciencenews.org/article/la-brea-tar-pits-yield-exquisite-ice-age-bees ... the image below (at the same link) is of the pupae of a bee (comparing a real life version with the fossilised

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/03012014/article/the-first-great-hu... ... genetic studies, we are told, indicate Palaeolithic people grew in huge numbers between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago. Why this should have

Most ethanol produced uses high temperature fermentation to chemically convert corn, sugar cane, palm oil or any suitable plant material into liquid fuel. A new

That is the inference in a story at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/04/young-galaxies-powered-by-massive-... .... and opens with the statement, all matter of fact, 'quasars- are young galaxies powered by

No - not a shindig in Wales but a reference to Cambrian fossils at www.livescience.com/44654-first-fossil-blood-vessel-arthropod.html .... where it has been found that creatures living 520

Speak of the devil. I mentioned Neanderthal DNA research two days ago and the very next day spied this story at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/new-method-confirms... ... Technical objections

For those interested in Ptolemy and the origins of astronomy, or just astrology, one might be interested in the post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/astrology-the-aesthetic-and-th...

The original research has now reached the pages of New Scientist - go to www.newscientist.com/article/dn25372-volcanic-blasts-hint-that-mercury-i... ... although they aren't calling it a loose canon, or

At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2014/140403_1.html ... a team led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities has discovered a giant

At www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-... ... which is a piece on discoveries at Serra da Capuara National Park in Brazil (in the NE of the country). Rock art

It seems a local ecologist in East Africa is now saying there is no chance the Mount Kilimanjaro glacier is going to melt - in

At http://beachcombersalert.org ... reports from beachcombers around the world are sought for the purpose of understanding the ocean currents and winds. A video at http://bit.ly/1isEo98

The 'wasp star' - does that not smack of something buzzing, or making a droning noise. In The Times of March 29th (page 82), Norman

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/04/new-bacteria-discovery-has-implica... ... is all about bacteria from space and a possible future threat to life on earth. At http://phys.org/print315745301.html ... a new study of

At http://westerndigs.org/hidden-architecture-of-1000-year-old-village-disc... ... which concerns an early Pueblo village site - and talking about sites (of the web variety) Western Digs is very good. At

Another interesting article in the March issue of the NCGT Journal (see www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php page 56-60. It is on the origin of oceans and how they

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... March issue, page 119, we have a reference to the Global Climate Status Report published by the Space and Science Research Corporation

At  www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... March issue page 16-37. Johnson describes various theories on the magnetosphere and it inter-action with the solar wind. However, he favours mountain

Bob Johnson, at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... comes up with a list of issues. Click on the March issue at the top and a pdf of the

I'm not particularly into politics, apart from the fact I don't like any one of them - but here we have a classic (for anyone