In the News

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/10/ (scroll down page to October 13th) or www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/10/the-mystery-of-red-giants-in-the-u... ... apparently, a group of nuclear physics theorists are claiming they have solved the mystery

Almost the same story pops up elsewhere to what was in the Independent a couple of days ago - so the art gallery line, storm

No dead bodies. It is the news that Rupert Sheldrake will be a speaker at the 2013 Electric Universe conference, January 3-6 in Albuquerque, New

At http://phys.org/print269161407.html ... apparently, computer simulated models are telling scientists we are in a phase of 'true polar wander' - which sounds a bit like

At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age... ... is another bit of whacko journalism. It is well known how some of the stones at Stonehenge have small carvings on them

At http://phys.org/print269077571.html ... a paper in the journal Solar Physics is based on data gleaned from the Hinude telescope, which is proving to be such

At http://phys.org/print268990338.html ... Voyager One may finally have left the solar system - NASA has yet to report and confirm this. There was a huge

At http://phys.org/print268989752.html ... a meteoroid seen over the UK on September 21st 2012 (there is a short video film) which was very bright for just

Climate scientists or their self appointed spokesmen and political close allies have come out with the absolute in arogance - anyone accepting Hubert Lamb's extensive

Long before the Egyptians thought of building pyramids a vast temple complex was built at the top of Scotland - in what is now the

On a similar theme a post at Tall Bloke's Talkshop - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/some-volcanoes-are-triggered-b... ... goes back to a 2011 paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X10001966 from the

This is one of those papers where you don't know whether to take it seriously or tongue in cheek. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/08/a-paper-unifying-cosmic-ray-intera... ... there is a

This is the question being asked by an Italian solar researcher - go to Tall Bloke's Talkshop at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/michele-casati-can-anyone-expl... ... and if you are interested

At www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/10/05/mexico--mayan-ball-court-w... ...Mexican archaeologists say the Maya built watchtowers on top of a ceremonial ball court at Chichen Itza in order to align with celestial

In the news today (www.space.com for example) we have a star rotating around what is thought to be a black hole at the heart of

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-309&cid=release_2012-309 ... astronomers using NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope have accomplished a more accurate and precise measurement of the Hubble Constant. This is the rate

At http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241427.html ... Al Arabiya News has a report on archaeologists in northern Iraq discovering a new Assyrian site, in Arbil, a Kurdish province. The

In the latest issue of Current Archaeology 272 (Oct/Nov 2012) there is an article that gathers the story together of the discovery of a body

At http://phys.org/print268301197.html ... an interesting story dating back to the Late Glacial Maximum - when the northern ice sheet reached down to the Great Lakes

At http://phys.org/print267984703.html ... we learn that Curiosity Rover has found an old streambed on the surface of Mars. This story, recommended by Lawrence Dixon from