In the News

Submerged lands off the coast of Wales

8 October 2010 Archaeology
At www.walesonline.co.uk September 25th ... archaeologists are looking for evidence of the prehistoric past - under the water off the coast of Wales. Dry stone

Update on the Sun from yesterday

8 October 2010 Physics
At www.calderup.wordpress.com Nigel Calder has a post on the Nature paper (see yesterday) about the Sun - and he is like a lot of other

Graphene and Space Time

7 October 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com October 6th Casey Kazan asks - will the physics of graphene show that Space-Time is a mirage? Space time, it is thought, is

Low Sun activity does not diminish warming effects - so it would seem

7 October 2010 Physics
At www.nature.com/news/101006/full/news.2010.519.html ... a paper in Nature shows that recent low activity on the surface of the Sun does not correlate with cooling. In fact,

Volcanoes and Neanderthals - update

6 October 2010 Geology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006094057.htm there is more on the October Current Anthropology paper by Golovanova and Doronichov. They think the Neanderthal demise was abrupt - a catastrophe.

Climate and Early Humans

6 October 2010 Geology
At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/uol-str_1100610.php we have news of some remarkable research at Olduvai Gorge on the edge of the Serengeti Plain. It famous for its hominid remains.

Deep sea corals in the Mediterranean

6 October 2010 Geology
At www.physorg.com/print205403448.html  an underwater coral reef just 40km off the coast from Tel Aviv and some 700m belong the surface has been found. At www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/04/AR20101004057

WISE update, an aurorae update, and turbulence in the solar wind

5 October 2010 Astronomy
At www.jpl/nasa.gov/news/ October 5th (see also Science Daily and www.physorg.com/print205433228.html ) ... as the WISE mission approaches the end of its life NASA announces that so

Graphene

5 October 2010 Physics
At http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/with-graphene-carbon-scores-again/ was prompted by the award of the Physics Nobel Prize this year to Geim and Novoselov for their work on graphene. Nigel Calder

The Great Attractor

5 October 2010 Astronomy
Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com October 5th has a longish post. A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super clusters of galaxies

Troy is getting bigger ... and a new tomb found in the Orkneys

5 October 2010 Archaeology
At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/project-troia-bronze-age-troy-just-keeps-growing/ ... excavations at Hissarlik, the consensus location for the ancient city of Troy, have confirmed Troy VI and VII were much larger than

Aborigine rock paintings of extinct animals and Neolithic wood working skills in Europe

4 October 2010 Archaeology
Current World Archaeology 43 October 2010 issue ... in the World News section there is a report on rock art found in Arnhem Land which

The riddle of the stones transported by boats

4 October 2010 Archaeology
Current World Archaeology October issue, has a news report on the subject of megalithic stones being transported by boat - coracles in fact. Franscesco Benozza

Plinian eruptions, and Babylonian poems

4 October 2010 Geology
At http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/clouds-of-fire/ we have a new post that outlines the nature of Plinian volcanic eruptions and their relationship to ignimbrites. Once again the comments are

Buried in sand in 3500BC

3 October 2010 Archaeology
Another very good archaeological story turned up today, a house that was buried by sand in around 3500BC (calibrated date) - see www.newsinenglish.no/2010.10.01/archaeologists-find-mini-pompeii/ and assumed

Ancient Steppe civilisation

3 October 2010 Archaeology
The Daily Mail and the Sunday Times and various other papers have printed a story about the discovery of swastikas and Aryans with the implication,

Ptolemy's Germania

3 October 2010 Archaeology
Spiegel Online at www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,518,720513,00.html says researchers have cracked Ptolemy's map of Germania and that settlements existed at a surprising number of towns some 2000 years

... and even more on the YD boundary event debate

2 October 2010 Archaeology
The next day, October 2nd, George Howard posted the Holliday and Meltzer paper at http://cosmictusk.com fully and completely, including an extensive discussion in which a

Sprites on a video clip

2 October 2010 Electromagnetism
At NASA's Space Weather.com (see link at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/02/watching-lightning-jets-hit-the-atmosphere/ ) there is a video clip of huge lightning discharges that are striking the ionosphere from thunderstorms below. It

Lascaux constellations

2 October 2010 Anthropology
BBC News 'online science editor' Dr David Whitehouse, in 2000, reported on the Ice Age prehistoric map of the night sky on the walls of Lascaux, as