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More on the story of horses in Arabia before horses arrived from the Russian steppes. This is at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21538969 ... and concerns a recent archaeology

At http://phys.org/print281345356.html ... bacteria from the middle and upper troposphere are being studied in a laboratory, micro-organisms that live 6 miles above the surface of

This story goes back to last year's transit of Venus. Phil Plait focussed on some dodgy Chinese science - rather, one maverick Chinese scientist, and

On March 3rd, the BBC2 Horizon programme, aired 'The Truth About Meteors' provoked by the recent Russian meteor light show on February 15th, as it

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2012/article/maize-was-a-k... ... it is claimed that maize was the key to the first civilisations known from Peru, in the third millennium BC. This discovery,

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2013/article/the-egyptian-for... ... it seems the archaeology does not fit the monuments and the history. This is a fairly long read and concerns the ancient

This story was at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226135241.htm ... and concerns so called refuges from the cold blasts of the Ice Age - where humans and animals, and

WISSARD, short for Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project, and is the exploration of a lake found beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. At

NASAs mission to probe the Van Allen belts has found a third ring of high energy 12,000 miles above the surface of the Earth. It

Phil Plait at his Bad Astronomy blog brings his effortless 'astronomically correct' version of PC to the table adding a  new dimension to the Younger

Current Archaeology 276 (March 2013) in its World News section, reports on the discovery that Ramesses III was murdered by cutting his throat, thereby solving

George Howard is on best behaviour at http://cosmictusk.com/live-link-comet-and-asteroid-impacts-and-human-soc... ... as he provides a link to the full pdf of a very expensive book to buy

At http://phys.org/print280693945.html ... scientists are looking further into the solar wind, the stream of particles and electro-magnetic waves that originate in the Sun and are

If you think it has been cold in the UK, or in the Mid West, over the last week or so, and then grab a

The La Brea tar pits are well known for the animals ensnared in them but there are also trees, bits of trees, branches, and various

At http://phys.org/print280669880.html ... asteroids aren't supposed to have tails. Comets do. We now have ten exceptions to the rule. Spanish astronomers have observed another one

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/02/saturns-shockwaves-reach-supernova... ... the Cassini spacecraft is said to have struck a strong blast of solar wind as it orbited the planet Saturn - and

Catastrophism ... www.pibburns.com/catastro.html (Philip Burns) Cosmopier ... http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/ .. which has some interesting ideas on End of Pleistocene and environmental change www.catastrophism.com ... Ian Tresman's

Phew! Saved by the bell. The consensus model of crystal formation lives to fight another day - see http://phys.org/print280505766.html Exactly how a crystal forms from

Interesting post up at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop who reckons he can discern a Fibonacci series and the Golden Ratio in the way the solar