In the News

At http://phys.org/print284290227.html ... researchers from the University of Leeds think they may have solved how objects from space gave rise to life on Earth. Some

Excitement about the release of an 1800 year old ice core from the Peruvian Andes, which will be used to compare with other ice cores

Keeping our feet on the ground and trying not to get hyped up by the cold weather this Easter, and snow in April, it is

Getting a handle on how cold it has been this March means looking back down through the Central England Temperature record, the oldest in the

We had the Higgs bosun discovery and now it looks like we might have the vaunted dark matter nailed down - see http://phys.org/print284206733.html The Alpha

A note for all revisionists, from Emmet to Eric and anyone else researching chronology, and the role of Babylon - just 2 per cent of

Was Mercury once a moon of Venus. It seems Tom Van Flandern posed this question quite some years ago - but is there anything to

How a new hockey stick was created to coincide with the next IPCC Report - and still on cue to be an icon. Another piece

In the Zagros mountains of Iran salt domes, a quite common geological oddity, break the surface - see http://geology.com/stories/13/salt-glacier/ As the region is arid there

At http://phys.org/print283951814.html ... computer simulation models are predicting trees are going to start growing on what is now tundra in the next 40 years. The

Laurence Dixon responded to the In the News piece on barycentric orbits on March 29th by making the point that under Newton's laws of gravity

Three cracking videos from Piers Corbyn discussing the role of the Sun, and the Moon, on the climate, and how they cause changes in the

Gary Gilligan sent in some further information about the goddess Sekhmet - who embodied the 'flaming' sky and 'flame of heaven' (see also his web

At http://phys.org/print282764868.html ... the question is what kick started life on Earth. It recognises the possibility of panspermia but on this occasion its interest is

The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about Viking ritual killing - did it happen, as some historians obviously wallow in the gore, or did it

Prof. Trevor Palmer sent in the following piece, gleaned from the New Scientist 'special issue' of 2nd March. The headline on the cover asks, 'We've

Change, not in the way the warm is causing the cold, but has it changed from warm to cold. We don't know but the Economist

At Hossein Turner's place, http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default ... a link to a video of electrictiy in the sky is at www.circuitsinourskies.com/index.html Over at http://io9.com/volcanic-lightning-how-does-it-work-459806533?utm ... lightning from

A post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fish-based-diets-cause... ... describes how fish can cause problems with C14 dating methodology, even in pottery where fish have been cooked - and

Tall Bloke is enthusiastic about barycentric orbits - but do they exist? I had visualised the 90,000 plus years cycle of the Sun around its