In the News

Excellent TV programme this evening, 4th April 2012, on BBC 2, 'Woolly Mammoth:Secrets from the Ice' .... although Alice Roberts bows to the BBC doctrine

Coral off Tahiti shows a dramatic and rapid rise in sea level of around 14m at 14,600 years ago - at the onset of the

At www.physorg.com/print252331686.html ... computer simulation of the July of 2009 impact event, picked up by an amateur astronomer the following day, has tried to find

The Italian physicist at the head of the team that made the unwelcome claim neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light, thereby upsetting

Poetry and climate science pragmatism ... see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/3/31/scaring-the-proles.html is the piece that comes from Sleepalot, the pseudonym of one of the commenters at the site.

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/1866-odd-coincidence/ ... in 1866 the winter solstice coincided with a Full Moon and the Moon was also at perigree - its closest point to

At http://io9.com/5897169/dna-reveals-that-cows-were-almost-impossible-to-d... ... there are over a billion cows in the world today but a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution claims there were just

At Pierre Gosselin's blog http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/29/coral-reef-growth-found-to-be-in-sync... ... scientists from Japan's Okayama Univerity claim the Sun influences coral reefs while at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012.03/29/the-gulf-stream-today/ ... claims that low activity

The unlikely web site, Small Business Newswire, www.sbwire.com/press-releases/print/133733 ... has a Harvard archaeologist say that he had obsered during excavations in the Levant many foot

At http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-archaeologist-sets-out-to-validate-2...    the legend of Naymlap, founder of a dynasty in ancient Peru, begins with his arrival in a fleet of balse rafts. He

The Sun is still active and that large sunspot cluster will rotate towards the Earth later during April. It is still spitting CMEs apparently -

At www.physorg.com/print252078480.html ... Cassini looks at Saturn's nightside aurora and its electric current system (with images) while at www.physorg.com/print252074030.html ... news that the West Antarctic

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327093532.htm ... it seems researchers at Nottingham Trent University have been looking at the Gardom's Edge standing stone, a 4000 year old slab of

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/cue-oliver-m-lightning-makes-fre... ... after a quarter of a century of denying Russian research, scientists in the West have at last acknowledged lightning can cause free

At www.physorg.com/print252088815.html ... is Comet Wild2 subject to space weathering, is the question being asked, but it is a reference to a rusty red colouration

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147 ... at a cave on Skye a small burnt and broken piece of wood is exciting archaeologists. It is part of the bridge

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... ...