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What wiped out the Neanderthals continues to fascinate anthropologists and others but unfortunately they do not wish to embrace the idea of catastrophism - in

This story is at various places and in various newspapers, such as The Guardian and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mass-grave-in-londo... ... but has an ultimate origin in an

At http://phys.org/print263543815.html ... where there is an image of a huge solar filament across the face of the Sun (early August) that is estimated to

Incredibly, it seems that 'castle scholars' or historians that study castles in England (Scotland and Wales are not implicated) have in the main  rejected the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mountains-seaway-tr... ... have a look at the two maps here and see what you think. Large parts of North America was underwater - as

Elephants, it seems, emit low rumbles in much the same way as a human might sing, blowing air through the larynx, or voice box. It

at http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com there is a good article on pottery finds in China dating back to 20,000 years ago, and another on a 5th century ad

Physics at the Edge - the edge of what? Playing to the fanfare on the Higgs Boson release a paper in Physical Review Letters (see

We've had tropical weather in the Arctic and it follows the same must have occurred in the Antarctic. Now, a rock core on the sea

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/07/giant-claw-in-desert-... ... An Aboriginal stockman found crocodile teeth and shards of bone in the desert, 160km north of Alice Springs, some years ago. For

At www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silchester-iron-age-roman-britain?INTC... ... excavations at Silchester have revealed the Atrebates tribe were living a fairly Roman like kind of lifestyle and diet 50 odd years

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/07/22/on-the-shoulders-of-suppressed-giant... ... Rens van der Sluijs wonders why Velikovsky cites some early catastrophists but fails to mention others - even where there is a

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uot-aue073012.php ... archaeologists have unearthed a human sculpture at Tell Tayinat. It had originally been about 3m in height but had been destroyed and

At www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/cousins-of-neanderthals-left-dna-in-a... ... the New York Times reports on the study in the journal Cell (see a couple of days ago) and they fill out

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19011013 details of another theory on the formation of the Moon begins by saying it 'is certain that some sort of impact from another

At http://phys.org/print262538410.html ... its ozone loss that is frightening some scientists it seems, according to a paper in the journal Science (July 27th 2012) -

At http://phys.org/print262508826.html ... new research on dark energy can deduce the End Times - the fate of the Universe, no less. The paper comes from

The global warming controversy has travelled down some funny lanes to nowhere but surely it has taken a wrong turn when it encourages planting trees

At http://phys.org/print262453864.html ... research into the Alpine fault on New Zealand's 'South Island' following on from the Christchurch earthquake, has discovered big ones occur roughly

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/discovery-of-early-med... ... at Trusty Hill which squats over Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway. There are Pictish symbols carved into a natural rock outcrop at