In the News

There has been a lot of speculation recently on what black holes actually do and the consensus seems to be moving towards the idea the

Phil Plait, the know it all defender of the faithful at Bad Astronomy is getting a bashing at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/2/1/awful-astronomer-astray.html and at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/01/briggs-schools-the-bad-astronomer-... and of course

See www.physorg.com/print247133863.html ... scientists have found that arteries react curiously to external electric fields, according to a new paper in the forthcoming Physical Review Letters.

The idea of God becoming involved in climate change is not new as the CAGW public relations propaganda people have attempted to embrace every sector

For those interested the discovery of cold plasma in the upper atmosphere has sparked a debate on the internet - see for example http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/warm-plasma-cold-plasma-purr-pur... and

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125113147.htm there is a report on research off the coast of Spain near Gibraltar and in the Gulf of Cadiz where sediment cores were

At www.physorg.com/print246867025.html ... a paper in Science (Jan 27th, 2012) claims the Moon once had a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a

At www.physorg.com/print246626517.html we learn that new research by the University of Reading and the Met Office admit that solar output is in decline - and

'Low energy ions: a previously hidden solar system particle population' is the title of a paper in Geophysical Research Letters - see www.physorg.com/print246632486.html. Cold plasma

NASAs Dawn spacecraft has produced a close up study of the asteroid, Vesta - see www.physorg.com/print246526715.html. Vesta has a diameter of around 330 miles but

SIS member William Thompson suggested I look at this story - a huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe (see also www.physorg.com/print246526036.html). The

At www.alphagalileo.org/PrintView.aspx?ItemId=116263&CultureCode=en (and also at the Daily Mail, online, but the comments are so bad, stay away) ... anthropologists at the University of Kent have

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm ... various studies and attempts to trace the origin of the domestic dog by DNA have been aired over recent years, tending to

The Oxford clay geological layer forms a bed that runs from Weymouth to East Anglia - usually well below the surface. It was found to

Sir Henry James in an article in a journal called The Athenaeum, in 1860, explained Ice Ages by the migration of the axis of rotation.

At www.physorg.com/print246274195.html there is a report on research in Japan and a paper in Physical Review Letters on problems associated with rotation of the Earth,

At http://aegyptologie.unibas.ch/forschung/projekte/university-of-basel-kin... news of the discovery of an 18th dynasty tomb not far from KV40. The entrance was blocked up but at a later stage

We might all be interested in what the Electric Universe theory people might say about this but the post, and a video, can be found

At www.physorg.com/print245921695.html details of a modelling experiment has been written up in the December issue of Human Ecology - with some interesting results. Modelling is

Another gem at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 19th 2012, 'Stratopause Emissions' following close on the heels of his investigation of water vapour in the atmosphere. In this