In the News

Bob Porter reports on gaps in the Belfast Chronology in a recent article authored by Mike Baillie and D Brown, 'Confirming the existence of gaps

A meteorite find in the US in the 1930s has been under the microscope - see http://phys.org/print301725844.html. Research has shown the meteorite, or space rock,

We covered this subject at the recent Study Group Meeting at the house of David Roth (in London) as one of the attendees had a

At http://phys.org/print301846082.html ... see picture below. This was taken a few weeks ago and shows just what landscape features an earthquake can create - a

At http://phys.org/print301582052.html ... is about the search for a common ancestor linking modern humans with Neanderthals. Going by dental fossils (they don't have much else

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/new-paper-finds-solar-uv-varie... ... Dr Sandip Dhomse of the University of Leeds has a paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics that notes solar UV radiation

At http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2468 and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013.10/23/milky-way-turns-out-to-be-a-vo... and even http://phys.org/print301684171.html ... the wobbling galaxy with velocities going upwards and downwards, seems to show our galaxy has a wave

Go to www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/ ... as it concerns a touch of climate mythology - the Gulf Stream and European climate, by Richard Seager.

The usual tale of black holes swallowing matter around them is beginning to change its tune. At http://phys.org/p;rint301741495.html ... see what you make of it

Okay, it is likely that most Near Earth Objects are in resonant orbit with the Earth, and have been for untold numbers of years, and

This is turning into a big story - see http://phys.org/print301240629.html ... the discovery of early human skulls in Georgia (in the Transcaucasus) which have been

Not literally as the Channel was dry land at the time. At www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2013/81-neanderthals.asp ... the St Brelade cave in Jersey contains sediments dating back to

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