In the News

At http://spaceweather.com (scroll down to March 30th, 2014) we have a solar flare causing a 'rare magnetic crochet' (on March 29th). Radiation in the flare

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/3/30/dating-error.html ... Doug Keenan claims he has found a mathematical error in how C14 dating is calibrated. The gist of the error is a

Thunderbolts have made their response to the claim that evidence has been found of an expanding universe - B mode polarisation (thought to be evidence

Tim Cullen takes a swipe at the greenhouse effect at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/greenhouse-effect-reality-check/ whilst another blogger takes a swipe at Arrhenius - go to http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/challenging-arrhenius-a... On the

At http://phys.org/print315143187.html ... comet Siding Spring is on course to come within 84,000 miles of Mars (closer than the Moon is to the Earth) in

An international team led by University of Cambridge researchers has show how entangled magnetic field lines looping from the Sun's surface slop around each other

At http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/greenland-ice-cores-show-natural-swings... ... it seems a new ice core in Greenland has thrown up a few surprises - wild swings in temperature and weather. The

At http://phys.org/print315047622.html .... a fresh look at Viking methods of navigating without a magnetic compass. They were able to reach Greenland, Newfoundland and Baffin Island

At http://phys.org/print315037822.html ... analysis of lunar soil samples seems to indicate the Moon's mantle contains hydrogen from water (possibly indigenous to Earth). The Moon, of

At http://phys.org/print314956904.html ... it seems some physicists are throwing a dash of cold water on the recent enthusiasm displayed at the BICEPS-2 results - see

At http://phys.org/print314910277.html ... we have a story with Einstein leading from the front. This is the way 'entangled particles' stay connected even when separated by

According to a report at http://news.yahoo.com/dinosaur-era-had-5-times-todays-co2-212124284.html ... which is assumed to have caused a greenhouse effect and led to high temperatures on Earth. This has

Gary Gilligan sent in a link to a BBC programme, Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures, at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xsfrq/fossil-wonderlands-natures-hidden... ... which provides confirmation organisms can be buried

Tim Cullen has an interesting post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/the-eye-of-nebraska/ ... and it's all about water welling up from deep inside the Earth - or that is

At http://phys.org/print314615619.html ... particles smaller than the Higgs are now being looked for - what it is that comes together to form the Higgs. See

Shrinking glaciers around the world have revealed plants that once thrived before the ice advanced. This in turn led to a spate of learned papers

In one of those peculiar stories the author keeps telling the reader, don't worry - its not going to happen. Apparently, we are informed, the

Tall Bloke's Talk Shop has an interesting post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/p-a-semi-topology-of-the-curve... ... which is a matter of patterns, I suppose, as we have spherical planets and

The reason is that this is the consensus mainstream theory - but why do they insist on keeping strictly on song when all the evidence

The Current Archaeology piece on human footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk can now be read (part thereof) online - go to www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/first-impressions-discovering-th... (see the earlier