In the News

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn22509-pumpkin-pie-craters-on-mercury-are-... ... the link was forwarded by member Gary and the story is derived from data sent back by NASAs Messenger spacecraft. The weird

At www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2012/11/14/an-ancient-city-1200-100-bc-comes... ... a chance to test a revision of history might come to light as well. An investigation of a town known to have

At http://phys.org/print272208228.html ... we learn that in the Ordovician era, which is a very long time ago, the equator ran down the western side of

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2012/article/stone-tipped... ... a Canadian team of anthropologists say they have found evidence humans were using stone tipped weapons to hunt as long ago as

High frequency flux transfer events have been detected near Mercury - is this evidence of the magnetic reconnection process? - see http://phys.org/print272050738.html ... the discovery

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2012/is-the-harappan-civili... ..... is the Indus Civilisation much older than generally thought. It must be as it was so near the early farming zone that

Evidence of glaciation in tropical regions appears to have spawned the idea of Snowball Earth. This is dated to the remote geological past, the Neoproterozoic

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/11/solar-activity-past-present-future/ ... is a post by Dr Leif Svalgaard, solar scientist and presumably an establishment figure but one that has taken part in the

At http://phys.org/print271939550.html ... dark energy remains hypothetical, used to explain the expanding universe, and other anomalies of the universe. Scientists are divided. Is it static

At http://phys.org/print271928022.html ... what would happen if the Earth's axis suddenly tilted? Geological records, apparently, record large shifts in tilt on several occasions throughout the

At http://phys.org/print271927309.html ... NASA launched twin satellites in August 2012, the Van Allen probes. The idea is to study the magnetosphere and how the solar

Professor Garel Rhys of Cardiff University, writing of the Dark Ages, says that 5th and 6th century Britain was not dominated by Anglo Saxon culture

At http://phys.org/print271445295.html ... according to Big Bang theory and a computer simulation of the evolving universe the rate of formation of new stars has declined

This is posted in astronomy because it is assumed that at some point in the past the heavenly twins are derived from a real phenomenon

At http://phys.org/print271337921.html ... acidity spikes in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores, calculated to date back to around 74,000 years ago, are thought to mark the

At http://phys.org/print271335383.html ... we learn that computer modelling has been used to show the Younger Dryas event was caused by fresh water melt of the

An interesting post for one and all at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/warren-de-la-rue-balfour-stewa... ... sun spots appear to grow on the face of

I've been flicking through the archive of the late Janek Pietron and have come across some interesting papers that he stored for future reference. In

Bas van Geel (University of Amsterdam) was a speaker at the 1997 SIS Conference at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, 'Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations',

The headline is the title of a talk and article by Dick Gagel that he gave at the last Study Group Meeting in Willesden (London).