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A paper in Nature Geoscience, March 26th - see www.physorg.com/print251966832.html - claims the composition of the Moon is much like that of the Earth for

Gary has sent in a couple of links that people may find stimulating - Sahara sand under the microscope. See http://vixra.org/pdf/1102.0022v1.pdf and www.myspace.com/jonlarsenguitar/photos/51836900 The mystery

At www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9162459/Mystery-solved-Turin-Shroud-li... ... is an interview by Peter Stanford of Thomas de Wesselow, a Cambridge academic who has been fascinated by the Turin Shroud since

A paper by Nicola Scafetta in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics is bound to get alarmists in a tangle - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/nicola-scafetta-major-new-pape... ...

It's all starting to spill out as the Clovis theory takes another stumble. A Canadian scientist analysed animal remains found in Ohio and claims a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/03/graveyard-of-prehisto... ... Indian sources report the discovery of a fossil graveyard of repltiles embedded in a layer of mudstone in central India. There are

NASA sicentists have been looking at how continents wander and plate tectonics in general - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322161938.htm. A layer of partially molten rock deep underground

Mercury is throwing up some surprises according to a paper in Science - see www.physorg.com/print251643931.html. For example, it has an iron core that comprises approximately

The climate versus human hunter theory has surfaced once again in Australia and once again achieves very little in settled science but does manage once

At www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9161483/Hoard-of-30000-silver-ro... (March 22nd) ... a hoard of coins dating from the 3rd century AD has been found not far from the famous Roman baths

At www.io9.com March 22nd there is a piece on the Higgs boson and the fact one physicist gave his name to the theoretical particle when

This story can  be found at a number of blogs but not necessarily in mainstream media - the BBC have ignored it for example. One

At www.physorg.com/print251533118.html ... a piece on sunspots and solar flares and an image of a solar flare from March 13th. The flare is described as

A ten cubic km wedge of sand now exists in the northern North Sea basin, somewhat south of Norway and east of Scotland, enough to

Global sea levels are pretty well flat at the moment but a paper in the journal Geology is not at all discouraged by this and

At www.physorg.com/print250746994.html ... the Nobel scientist who warned the world of thinning ozone in the atmosphere has died - and suddenly all the hype has

At www.physorg.com/print251310652.html ... University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems

At www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=137665 ... the Sofia News Agency is reporting on the discovery of a monastery in Bulgaria that was founded in AD344 b y St

Fascinating piece at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145802.htm ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters, 'Holocene Aridification of India' is based on a sediment core extracted from the Bay

Following on from yesterday (Bill Napier email from 2005) the YD impact hypothesis is revisited at http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/the-younger-dryas-impact-hy... in which the author begins by saying the