In the News

There is another paper out this month that may be saying more than it actually admits in the written form - go to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131014221537.html where

Fred Hoyle, in one of his books, Ice I think, made a connection with scree formation and lightning, and thought it unlikely that frost action

Cadbury's Milk Tray, brought by a hunk to a swooning lady, was depicted with a selection of hard and soft centres, chocolates to suit any

A new explanation for the current rotational state of the planet Mercury has been offered - see http://phys.org/print300689491.html. The rotation is two thirds of the

At http://phys.org/print300699048.html ... Finnish scientists in collaboration with the Russians have been looking at the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia in February. This was

The September issue of NCGT Journal is now available to download and print out in pdf at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (or www.ncgt.org/nws/909848777ac2dc52479540e3efc31add.pdf) ... William Thompson forwarded the

In one of those science puzzles the general public has generally been sheltered, for whatever reason, the consensus has admitted problems did exist with moving

Stonehenge is going back further into the past according to www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24488759 ... or rather, a Mesolithic site on a hill overlooking Stonehenge is proving to

In 1251 lightning is said to have destroyed the bedchamber of the queen at Windsor and shook the whole house. In the nearby Windsor Forest

The boundary event is the same as in yesterday's post, the transition from the Palaeocene to the Eocene, but the date is slightly different -

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/6thearly-8th-century-yok... ... is about Late Kofun burial catacombs of the 6th to 8th centuries AD, some of which have lovely murals. They are thought

At http://phys.org/print300440386.html ... this story has the title, 'first ever evidence of a comet striking the Earth' - and the event is dated 28 million

At http://westerndigs.org/prehistoric-meteorite-shrines-in-arizona-may-be-l... ... No surprise that people were watching the sky in Arizona as they were elsewhere in the world - and built structures to

At http://phys.org/print299786071.html ... a new study by climate scientists at the University of Berne in Switzerland has been looking at the Little Ice Age. In

At  www.thelocal.se/50604/20131004/ ... archaeologists in northern Sweden have come across the remains of farm dating from around 1100 BC, in a completely unexpected location. Is

At http://phys.org/print300352509.html ... a core sample from New Jersey geology, in a region once beneath the sea (55 million years ago) has clay bands around

This story is at several places with a different emphasis at some of them. At http://phys.org/print300385973.html ... there was an abrupt climate shift in the

At http://phys.org/print300354398.html ... a paper in Nature Physics shows for the first time, in academic literature, a direct link between solar storms, shock waves and

At http://climateaudit.org/2013/10/08/fixing-the-facts-2/ ... Steve McIntyre illustrates how the climate scientists assembling the IPCC report go out of their way to revise items they see as

At http://phys.org/print300257242.html ... it is being suggested by astronomer Ignacius Ferrin that Comet ISON is beginning to disintegrate - and it has only in the