In the News

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

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/paper-gives-new-clue-to-the-de... ... reposted from http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-paper-demonstrates-tempe... and the abstract to the paper is at www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n5/full/nclimate1817.html where the question is posed - does co2 cause temperature

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