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Sean Kingsley in World Current Archaeology 62 - see www.world-archaeology.com (story not on site at moment as this is the December 2013 edition), uses the

At https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/56e227224a25 ... rocks from the Chicxulub asteroid 'must' have spread through the solar system, it is theorised in the arXiv paper. What do they

One of physics biggest unsolved problems is described at http://phys.org/print303981706.html ... where two astrophysicists claim they have 'almost' solved why the Sun's corona is much

This is the third link that is reminiscent of Malaga Bay (remember the black smokers on the ocean bottom) - see http://phys.org/print303899664.html ... a paper

Malaga Bay also came to mind when I read the headline here too - see http://phys.org/print304016779.html ... microbiologists have found that methanogen microbes can reduce

I couldn't help thinking of some of Malaga Bay's postings when coming across this at http://phys.org/print303991846.html ... a piece of research on amber deposits. A

At www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,397981,dabki-where-hunters-met-farm... ... a Polish settlement site in Pomerania, on an island in a lake, and dating between 5100 and 3600BC, displays no evidence of

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/methane-myopia-5-ice-core-scie... ... and he begins, 'Glaciology is a slippery science ...' and we might all say aye to that. He then quotes Wikipedia extensively

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/genetic-link-shown-bet... ... a paper published in PLoS ONE, using DNA methodology, has shown a fairly stable population in Syria and the middle Euphrates valley

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fishtrap-evokes-powerf... ... which is a bit of a soft soap kind of reporting, nothing like a bit of environmental emotionalising, but the subject itself

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/catastrophic-climate-c... ... this concerns what caused the abrupt end of the thriving civilisations of the LB age which were followed by a period of

Here is a story of consensus science to make you blush - but not if you are feeling a touch on the toady side -

Keeping to the wolfish theme at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dogs-likely-origina... .... another theory on the origin of the domestic dog. In all likelihood European dogs did evolve from

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/science-on-trail-of... .... the folk tale of Little Red Riding Hood has a near global dispersal and may reflect ancient human migrations - or cultural

At www.spaceweather.com ... Comet ISON is getting brighter and brighter as we approach the end of November encounter with the Sun. Its tail now extends

At http://phys.org/print303641255.html ... it seems geologists might have a new way to look for gold in them thar' hills - find the crater and then

At http://phys.org/print303673640.html ... Jupiter's red spot, is a giant vortice that is supposed to lose energy by radiating heat and is suspended between two jet

At http://cosmo.nyu.edu/~rj486/files/RJansson_PhD_thesis.pdf ... the magnetic field of the Milky Way. Each star in the Milky Way has its own magnetic field - like our Sun.

At http://phys.org/print303571573.html ... latest update on plasma fusion - Chinese, American, French. Where are the British? Stuck up a windmill. How much are we really

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/methane-myopia-3-earth-science/ ... Tim Cullen takes aim again at the Earth Sciences and a Wikipedia entry that claims, 'palaeo-climatology research published in Current Biology suggests