In the News

Its beginning to look like the implosion by the press as a result of the News of the World 'dodgy practises' might in the end

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712211016.htm ... a paper in Biology Letters July 12th claims researchers from Yale University have found a dinosaur fossil buried just 5 inches below

A paper in Nature Geoscience is featured at www.physorg.com/print229678808.html and has confirmed that the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland was at one

At www.physorg.com/print229767192.html there is some speculation about the origin of black holes. They were not formed by mergers between galaxies as hypothesised elsewhere, it says.

At www.physorg.com/print229686718.html is a story about worms, or nematodes, living two and a half miles beneath the surface of the earth, according to a paper

This story is at a variety of sites but www.physorg.com/print229686172.html is as good as most. On June 7th this year, 2011, a flash of X-rays

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/07/is-there-a-fundamental-flaw-in-our... is an interesting question - and it is all up for grabs. The bigger galaxies are supposed to form from a merger of

It seems that volcanic aerosols may be under-estimated when it comes to global temperatures. Research in France has just been published by PNAS (July 2011)

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2011/astronomical-observati... has a post about a very old controversy. Anyone that followed the debate in the pages of Kronos or SIS journals, on the

Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn, and colleagues, analysed the notion of dwarf galaxies, thousands of stars that orbit the Milky Way. These are

Sediments buried under 8 metres of sand and debris at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Greece are due to a tsunami it is alleged at

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/332171/title/FOR_KIDS_Tsunami_trek_t... ... it seems the earthquake in March 2011 that shook the sea floor 80 miles east of Japan and released a tsunami wave

Beneath an alpine meadow in the Colorado Rockies a huge fossil bed has been foudn - exactly how and when it was laid down is

I'm getting dizzy but it seems that a few days ago the Firestone et al hypothesis was on the ropes, even bent forwards on its

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-203&cid=release_2011-203 we learn that Cassini has taken images and sounds of electrical storms on Saturn - and one of them has been raging since

This time, a paper in Nature July 7th (see www.physorg.com/print229175772.html ) that claims not just push and pull at plate boundaries are responsible for tectonic

Musings from the Chiefio, July 4th 2011 (http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/why-does-the-sea-floor-move-in-s... ... EM Smith looks at consensus theory on sea floor spreading, mainly in the Pacific as he

It seems we have two climate scientists with the monicker of Michael Mann (but with different middle names). This emerged with the publication of a

As Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas have again come in for some high octane criticism from the doomsaying community as alarmist quarters scratch around waving

At http://cosmictusk.com/a-personal-essay-from-vance-holliday-on-the-clovis... is another nail in the coffin of the comet impace theory at the beginning of the Younger Dryas. It looks more and more