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Disappointment all round. Comet ISON is effectively dead - zilch (see http://phys.org/print305804079.html). There is no evidence of a zombie half existence - or a resurrection

At http://westerndigs.org/oldest-known-footprints-in-north-america-identified/ ... a surprisingly large number of human footprints have been preserved in sedimentary rocks in N America - going back to the Younger

You have heard of the expanding earth theory - which gives Plate Tectonics a run for its money. Now we have the expanding universe theory

Oh Dear oh dear. That chappie Rog the Not so Short One has been rather naughty - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/ipcc-ar5-synthesis-report--pre... ... which is basically the

It is worth having another look at the Expanding Earth theory as it has a lot of things going for it in contrast to Plate

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/cosmic-ray-blues-the-bloody-moon/ ... we have another cracker by Tim Cullen. . A lunar eclipse provides Earth dwellers with a view of an orangey red Moon

This refers to a paper by a German-British team of geoscientists that say that the warming of the cold Younger Dryas period happened rapidly but

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland is said to have found the Higgs boson, formed during collisions between bunches of protons travelling close

Bryn celli Dhu on Anglesey, is a prehistoric mound situated in the middle of a farm field, suitably fenced off from livestock and with a

A photo chop - or is it a photo shop. A splice photograph of a Copenhagen beauty spot ... The link to the tweet is

The idea of science being settled about anything is a bit of an oxymoron but never mind - that is what we have come to

Albedo is derived from Latin = whiteness - in this instance it is reflected sunlight. From albus = white is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting

At http://phys.org/print305395954.html ... measurement of polarised light in the afterglow indicates the presence of a stable magnetic field associated with a young black hole -

Well, what caused it is a matter of debate - if you go to Piers Corbyn's web site he predicts earthquakes from solar and lunar

This story is at http://phys.org/print305488101.html ... scientists are still unsure how much of the comet may have survived its encounter with the Sun - if

SIS member William Thompson emails to say Robin Canup, a space scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado has published a piece in the

At http://westerndigs.org/long-hidden-sites-discovered-in-the-southwest-may... ... the Apache tribes were thought to be relatively recent arrivals to Arizona and New Mexico but it looks like they were there

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/05/giant-convection-cells-found-on-th... ... NASA solar scientist David Hathaway has published a new paper (see Dec 6th issue of Science journal) which says long lived convection

Robert Farrar sent in this link - which begins in 2005 and the discovery by Mary Sweitzer of fossilised soft tissue in a Tyrannosaurius skeleton

Peter Knight, in The Cerne Giant - Landscape, Gods, and the Stargate (2012) has made some interesting observations on the Cerne Giant, a Dorset hill