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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).

The newchronology [at] yahoogroups [dot] com forum on the 'New Chronology' as developed by David Rohl, former SIS member, in his several books, such as

This story is at http://phys.org/print270934592.html ... a 660lb iron meteorite was found near Poznan in Poland. It is cone shaped, around 2m in diameter, and

At http://phys.org/print270970024.html ... astrophysicists have investigated a cluster of oddly behaving stars in the Sword of Orion - by using, in their words, 'sophisticated computer

A good article on evolution can be found at www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Far_from_random_evolution_follows_a_... ... which raises the possibility evolution may not be random but may be driven by

NASA satellite data has been used in a study to assess vegetation growth and crop potential across the world - big brother is watching you

Japanese scientists propose in the journal Nature Geoscience that a large asteroid struck the Moon in the remote past and created the geological feature known

Leroy Ellenberger's latest piece of rhetoric in his fued with Thunderbolts personnel, sent to multiple email addressees (he collects them like discarded tram or train

At http://phys.org/print270838398.html ... an analysis fo soil on Mars by NASAs Curiosity Rover has revealed the presence of feldspar, pyroxenes and olivine, mixed with amorphous

A genetic study claims it has uncovered a period of human population expansion that it dates between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago - see http://phys.org/print270810711.html

Climate science is increasingly looking at the Sun, the solar wind, and influence of the planets - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/rapid-progress-for-the-solar-p... ... even levels of ozone at

At http://phys.org/print270613694.html ... a conference at Orlando in Florida next february, on comets and asteroids, is timed to coincide with the flyby of asteroid 2012

Gary Gilligan has a post up at Thunderbolts - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/daily-tpod/ (Oct 28th) on the subject of the Sahara desert, the amount of dust that

Piers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com (news, Oct 27th) is inviting anyone interested to attend the Houses of Parliament on wednesday Oct 31st, at 12.30 for a