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Interesting post at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/milky-ways-vast-molecular-clouds-w... ... the Spitzer Space Telscope and NASAs GLIMPSE Mission (a ten year survey) has scanned a deep panarama of our galaxy

Another conspiracy theory has been washed down the plug hole it would seem. The idea that a small skeleton with a squashed head, likened to

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/origins-of-chinese-agr... ..the first evidence of agriculture, the domestication of plants and animals, is dated to the early Holocene - around 10,000 years ago. However,

At http://cosmictusk.com/sheridan-cave-down-but-not-out/ there is a link to a paper in Current Research in the Pleistocene, 28 (2011), Redmond and Tankersley, 'Species Response to the Theorised

We have  all heard in recent weeks, if not days, about the EU directive against certain insecticides used on seeds being banned as a result

At http://phys.org/print286438628.html ... a lot of archaeological work has been taking place in the region of ancient Kush - upstream from ancient Egypt. Some ionteresting

At last the Toba super volcano catastrophe idea has been squelched - see www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355515 The idea that humans almost became extinct at 75,000 years ago

At http://phys.org/print286532235.html ... a lake in Iberia, in the Sierra Nevada, over 3000m above sea level, has revealed evidence of atmospheric polution around 2000BC. The

An intriguing and very good piece at http://phys.org/print286551435.html ... a discovery at Uunortoq in Greenland over 50 years ago, thought to be a Viking sea

This one goes back to 2008. At http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/15dec_solarfla... ... Richard Mewaldt of CalTech describes what was discovered after a huge solar flare in 2006 as

I've logged this story before, I think, but here it goes again - from a different source (www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/03/12/87456-horton-q...). The newspaper cutting I have is dated

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/04/dark-matter-is-the-tip-of-an-icebe... ... ten years ago many astronomers or particle physicists disagreed that dark matter was important but now, that has changed. The post is

There are lots of sites and articles on the web devoted to Charles Hapgood's Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings. We now have another site

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uog-nei042613.php ... the study of a Neolithic community at Karleby in Sweden has come up with some interesting results after scientists from the University

Tim Cullen, in a post at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop, 'The Other Big Bang Theory', raises an interesting set of issues, not least another example

Water from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which spectacularly struck Jupiter way back in 1994 appears to have left behind millions of gallons of water, it is

At www.nature.com/news/first-australians-may-have-been-migrants-rather-than... .. we have news of a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12865) that has used C14 methodology to seek

At the height of the Late Glacial Maximum, 22,000 years ago, humans were living in NE Brazil, according to a new evaluation of the disputed

Another new book. French intellectual and philosopher Pascal Bruckner, The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse - see the review at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/25/bruckners-opus.html

A third millennium BC rich burial has been found near Windsor, reputed to be 4400 years old - see www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-years-old-go... The woman, wearing a knecklace