In the News

At http://phys.org/print301210854.html ... the Sun's magnetic field is a churning and undulating cycle as it reaches solar maximum - it then flips. Solar maximum comes

We've had muching black holes and hungry black holes but it seems we now have fat black holes - see http://phys.org/print301210413.html ... fat black holes

Some nice asteroid stories in the news. At http://phys.org/print301303272.html ... concerns a newly discovered asteroid that made a close approach to Earth on September 16th

At http://phys.org/print301286033.html ... the headline reads, 'Is the Christmas comet cracking up?' and at http://phys.org/print301247934.html ... the headline is 'Incoming comet ISON appears intact' -

New Velikosky type book out by someone known as John Ackerman, Egyptian Astrophysics: the 30 year cycles, which appears to be straight out of the

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