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Lots of hype around over the fact Voyager 1 and 2 are on the edge of the heliosphere - but have they really escaped the

Considering that we are part of the European Union we appear to have very little news content of what is happening on the continent -

1014AD is marked by a large ammonium spike (Mike Baillie, New Light on the Black Death) and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a huge sea flood

At http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/07/dwarf-galaxies-challenge-ou... ... which stems from the discovery of dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy, orbiting it in an immense plane. Everywhere astronomers looked they

Anne Marie has sent news that Alfred de Grazia has died. He was in his nineties.

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dam-construction-tu... ... you'd think the environmentalist brigade, so fond of blocking dam building in the third world, would baulk at the idea of dam

This story is at www.livescience.com/46715-why-ammonites-went-extinct.html ... you'd think they would already know as it was about the same time an asteroid struck the Earth -

At http://phys.org/print324263317.html ... a NASA funded mission to study the Sun's energy output. Solar irradiance changes over the Sun's 11 year cycle and probably changes

A piece of news that has been causing some feelings of grief can be found at http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mysterious-earthen-rings-p... ... which is all about human made earth

At http://phys.org/print323592013.html ... a fly Spanish instrument, the IMaV magnetograph, has recorded how flux tubes are formed and evolve on the Sun. These are the

At http://phys.org/print323585559.html ... a remote galaxy has a bright light on show, which appears to emanate from a black hole at the heart of the

Yes, it seems fire can rain out of the sky - that is what mythology appears to be saying - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/07/02/burning-questions-2/ ... another

Nicola Tesla is one of those people very often sidelined in life but almost worshipped after his death. There is a review of him at

At http://phys.org/print323856790.html ... there is a report on study that derives from an ice core section. It was analysed for various chemical traces in a

At http://phys.org/print323596759.html ... scientists have revised the timeline of human origins after it was found Homo erectus sometimes overlapped their assumed ancestors by several hundred

It seems there were two timber henges discovered at Holme on the Norfolk coast. The New Age druid demonstrators made a lot of fuss about

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/c02-burp-helped-tri... ... we are told a team of scientists have discovered some CAGW fairy dust - a giant burp of co2 from the North

At http://spaceweather.com of July 4th 2014 (you will have to scroll down) we have a nice image of noctilucent clouds and a short explanation. They

Blick Mead, overlooking the river Avon, is also the feature of an article in Current Archaeology 293 (see once again, www.archaeology.co.uk - but remember the

An article in Current Archaeology 293 (July/August 2014) (see also www.archaeology.co.uk) makes the point that Silbury Hill sits at the head of the Kennet River