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At http://phys.org/print287652251.html ... new research from the Australian National University has revealed the centre of Earth is out of sync with the rest of the

Bob Porter, SIS member and New Chronology advocate, writing archaeological updates for our journal (usually in Review) has made a reply at NewChronology [at] yahoogroups

The New York Times (the American version of the Guardian) has conceded that global warming is not happening yet assures its readers co2 levels are

Don't know if this is important but at www.livescience.com/31983-minoans-were-genetically-european.html ... is a reference to skeletons going back 3700 to 4400 years ago that have been

Dr Jeffrey Goodman, The Comets of Gods (available from Amazon in ebook form (for Kindle) but provides a list of sellers (hard copy). This is

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509091118.htm ... underwater investigation of the medieval town of Dunwich has recently been undertaken - funded and supported by English Heritage. The ruins of

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/plos-iac050113.php ... Chinese Academy scientists (Beijing) have published a paper saying that prior to the adoption of rice cultivation, those people living in southern

The assumption that higher levels of co2 causes major climate change is apparent on many fronts, not least in a new paper in Science (May

NASA has launced a couple of rockets in the Pacific in order to find out more about the ionosphere - known as the EVEX experiment.

At http://phys.org/print287302604.html ... the American Geophysical Union (see also http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tect.20025/abstract) have published a paper on the Zagros fold and thrust belt that stretches from the

It's getting weird from the consensus Plate Tectonics angle,  weirder and weirder. At http://phys.org/print287119098.html ... Brazilian geologists have dug a rock out of the ocean

At http://phys.org/print287137545.html ... there is a story about the black hole at the heart of our galaxy - still munching away. A dense torus of

This is a guest post by Tim Cullen at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/tim-cullen-illumination-from-t... ... professors Mark Smith and Horoshi Imanaka have published

Soemtimes called a rock, sometimes a mineral, flint is usually grey or black (but can also be red or brown when affected by iron oxides,

In Down to Earth issue 83 (May 2013), a geological magazine published by Geosupplies of Chapeltown, Sheffield) there is an interesting take on the Indian

On May 8th, BBC2 television's 'Nature's Wildest Events' had a piece on lightning - with the admission scientists did not know what actually caused it

At http://news.yahoo.com/stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-peru-pyramid... ... an alignment, marked by a trail of stones (geoglyphs), runs 2km from the pyramid as people descended down the valley from the

At www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/05/babylon-hanging-garden-wonder-nin... ... S Dalley of Oxford University has accumulated a lot of evidence to show the Hanging Gardens were erected in Nineveh rather than

A paper in PNAS by an evolutionary theorist from Reading University, Mark Pagel, claims words from a long extinct language prevalent across Europe and western

Tony Haynes is going to give an update on his research into plasma energy at the next study group meeting - and all members are