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The Slough Observer last week had a report on the history behind the Montem Mound at Salt Hill in Slough. In various sources this was

The Cassini spacecraft has detected a thin atmosphere that includes oxygen and ozone on Saturn's moon, Dione - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-056&cid=release_2012-056. Admittedly, it is a faint

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301143737.htm and begins by saying that it has been assumed that the last Ice Age denuded the Scandinvian landscape of trees

At www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-a... ... the title says it all and recounts the story of the scallop trawler that hauled up a mastadon tusk and a dark,

The paper reviewed on the post in front of this (today) at http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/02/emphatic-blow-to-co2-warmists-new-stu... uses high resolution foraminifera based sea temperature data (the shells of plankton)

This is really climate change but it is also having a look inside science, hence the heading. Fakegate has dominated the blogosphere for the last

Yes, a whole fossil forest has been discovered - going back millions of years. It was found in the Catskill Mountains in upper New York

At www.physorg.com/print249588620.html we learn that a submersible has discovered that deep canyons off the coast of Hawaii link up to river valleys. Detritus carried by

Now, we are told that Neanderthals wee on the verge of extinction even before the appearance of anatomically modern humans - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120225110942.htm according to

At www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-ag... (David Keys, Feb 28th) new archaeological evidence has been found to support the Clovis-Solutrean connection. Stone tools dating from between 26,000 and 19,000

At www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/28/tomb-jonah-discovered-finder-lost-tom... --- a  second tomb from first century AD Jerusalem is causing a bit of a stir. It has an engraving depicting Jonah and

At http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov there is information on fireballs over North America - and presumably elsewhere too. The story can also be seen at www.physorg.com/print249203167.html and it

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-048&cid=release_2012-048 there is some interesting information available about Saturn's moon, Titan, the subject of a number of papers in the science press recently. The

Gary Gilligan spotted this book for sale on Amazon, see www.amazon.co.uk/Velikovsky-Heresies-Collision-Catastrophes-Revisited/dp... and the product description is as follows .... it provides new evidence from recent

Presentation of science to Joe Public is often jazzed up - in books, on TV and in museum displays and the classroom. Take, for example,

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-047&cid=release_2012-047 ... news that NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered solid buckyballs in space. The real name, as mentioned in a post last year,

The forthcoming IPCC AR5 report, it is being suggested, will not look at the Sun as the main driver of the climate, and has omitted

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/aztec-carvings-tell-stor... ... the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan in Mexico has carvings depicting Aztec myths including the birth of the god of war Huitzilopochtli. There

In the 'Sunday Times Book of the Countryside' (1983) there is a very nice diagram of the SW peninsular (Cornwall and Devon). It seems that

This post is informative ... see www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/transit.html 'Sudden Climate transitions during the Quaternary' ... and is about a whole series of rapid climate transitions over