In the News

Lovely images of Mars - polar ice cliffs, gullies, craters, and dunes - go to http://phys.org/print261381810.html ... with links to HiRISE web site and more

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/important-new-paper-on-the-nocturn... ... this is the subject that put Anthony Watts on the blogging map, the weather station data and urbanisation (the urban heat island

At http://rhythmsoflife.ca/ ... there is a web site to publicise a new book on evolution, by Susan Crockford, Rhythms of Life. How did wolves become

At http://phys.org/print261121955.html ... we have one of those frustrating press releases from a university, a letter of intent - future plans. Scientists, it says, are

Buzzing around the blogosphere is news of a paper in Nature Climate Change that may have put the cats among the pigeons - although the

At www.thebunsenburner.com/news/an-impostor-particle-cern-scientists-may-no... and www.thebunsenburner.com/news/did-scientists-discover-the-higgs-boson-or-... ... CERN scientists were not willing to confirm the existence of the particle during their announcement last week but they did

In Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:2, an abridgement by Colin A Roman of Joseph Needham's original 1981 text, we have on page 84 ...

Two stories of interest at Anthony Watts blog. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/09/weak-solar-convection-approximatel... ... solar researchers have been trying to understand how the Sun transfers heat from its

As discussed at a recent meeting, there is a theory our solar system is part of a binary system that involves the star Sirius -

There are some interesting facts about polar bears and brown bears on the sceptic blog http://notrickszone.com/2012/07/07/arthur-c-smith-iii-polar-bear-extinct... ... and really, it is all about the Ice

At http://www.popular-archaeology/issue/june-2012/article/classic-maya-coll... ... the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is an idea that has been replicated so many times that it has become a factoid.

A paper published in Nature July 5th claims planets may form much faster than consensus theory currently allows - see http://phys.org/print260625944.html. This idea comes after

Environmental lobbyists and Green whack jobs seem to have the ear of our politicians, a somewhat startling situation when you think about it. Why not

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/05/putting-piers-corbyn-to-the-test/ ... this has come about as Piers Corbyn of www.weatheraction.com fame has made a couple of 'public' forecasts- they are usually available only

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/A_group_of_fungi_marked_the_end-of_t... ... is a strange article but that might be as a result this site is about archaeology and the subject matter is geology

Expectation preceding the wednesday announcement led to a raft of online pieces - for example see http://phys.org/print260590156.html ... where, it seems, finding the Higgs Boson

At http://sciencenordic.com/legendary-viking-town-unearthed/ ... is about the reported discovery and excavation of a town of over 200 houses and still counting near the Danish border. It

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341948/title/All_dinosaurs_may_have_... which is a surprising development but not so unlikely after it had been established they were in all likelihood warm blooded (see last

The New York Times at www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/oldest-known-pottery-found-in-china.html ... comes several days after others have reported the same thing, and even then they got it wrong and

The big news is the 'near' discovery of the Higgs Bosun particle by scientists at CERN. More will come through the grape vine over the