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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

This is essentially physics rather than climate science - although the latter relies on some consensus physics thinking. At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/co2-does-not-black-body-radiatio... ... which should be a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/remains-of-burnt-an... .... a city in Chandigarh in India has a burnt layer, eight feet high, dating to the second century BC. Mike Baillie has

At http://phys.org/print320658152.html ... two Chinese researchers have suggested black holes might not be all they are cracked up to be. They may in fact be

Over at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/carbon-14-seeing-the-light/ ... Tim Cullen continues his quest to disect carbon 14 methodology - and where its weaknesses might lie. It has continued through

At http://joannenova.com.au/2014/05/earth-creates-tides-in-the-rock-of-the-... ... we are all used to the Moon creating tides in the seas and oceans on Earth, but in the opposite direction, it

At http://phys.org/news/2014-05-nasa-iris-gigantic-eruption-solar.html ... the NASA IRIS instrument with the mission of observing the surface of the Sun has managed to catch a CME in the

We had a wonderful television story from Canada the other week, a polar bear that became friends with a dog. They enjoyed a bit of

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/05/the-universe-is-not-expanding-an-a... ... we have all been inculcated with the idea the universe began with a big bang event, an act of creation. This kind

At http://phys.org/print319999018.html ... NASAs 'Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer' (WISE mission) has been looking at black holes - and they don't seem to conform to consensus

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-162 ... a fresh meteor crater has been studied by NASA and some conclusions have been reached. It first appeared in March 2012 and

Gary forwarded this link at http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/the-mysterious-skeleton-lake-of-th... ... which concerns a glacial lake in Uttarakhand State in northern India, high in the Himalayas. It is situated

No. I'm not talking about climate change or global weirding - or even the elusive global warming. At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/carbon-14-cookbook/ ... Tim Cullen is digging holes

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/discovering-artists... ... dating back between 7000 and 6000 years ago, during the Mid Holocene Warm Period, even earlier than the Pre-dynastic era, is a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-incredible-daoh... ... we have evidence the Arctic was subtropical in the Jurassic and western Europe also had a pleasant enough and warm climate -

This is the catastrophe Velikovsky chose to identify as a Persian invasion of Egypt many hundreds of years later. Gaston Maspero, in the 1860s, came