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This came from http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/andrew-cooper-were-the-recent-... ... Roger, the tall one, took this from a comment made at an earlier post, http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/2012-da14-how-to-watch-tomorro... in which Andrew Cooper looked

The size of clouds can vary under the influence of a global 'electrical heartbeat' in the atmosphere, University of Reading researchers have claimed. They looked

The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft beamed back images that scientists have used to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface

Apparently, when European ships first arrived in the Falkland Islands around 300 years ago there was just one mammal species living there - the so

More evidence for historical episodes of cosmic airbursts and rocks out of space comes from the Song of Ullikummi - see http://cosmictusk.com/song-of-ullikummi-grondine-unpacks-broze-age-myth-... George Howard begins

Lots of the white stuff in the air this weekend - Europe takes another cold snap in its stride but climate change disciples are adamant

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/ismael-bullialdus-finder-but-not keeper-of-the-inverse-square-law-of-gravitation/ ... a post under the heading of geomagnetism, gravity, solar physics and solar dynamics. Lots of science history. See also HH Ricker

Every now and again Tall Bloke's Work Shop posts a piece to set the commenters tapping at their keyboards and their brains go into overdrive,

Armagh Observatory has an image of Comet 2011 44 (Pan-STARRS), a bright comet that will be visible in the northern hemisphere this week - see

A year or so back a local archaeologist reinvestigated a Roman villa at Yewdon, near Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, after coming across several dozen infant remains in

At www.io9.com/5988736/has-the-milky-way-devoured-other-galaxies?utm ... a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society claims the Milky Way has absorbed smaller galaxies - but millions

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