In the News

NASA has released a video which can be seen at www.physorg.com/print217766695.html of the recent, Feb 14th/15th flyby of Comet Tempel1 by the Stardust spacecraft.

At www.physorg.com/print217764133.html .... huge blobs of plasma known as coronal mass ejections cause probems when they collide with the magnetosphere of the earth. They produce

At www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41721082/ns/technology_and_science-science/ .... scientists digging at the Grotto of Smoke in North Italy have found some intriguing evidence. There are a lot of Neanderthal bones

At www.culture24.org.uk Feb 22nd ... a report on a team of geologists searching for the origin of the blue stones at Stonehenge. The dolerite is

At http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/ ... if you never understood what the fuss was about in 'hiding the decline' in the Climategate emails read this piece by a

At http://cosmictusk.com/repeat-grondine-essay-on-collapse-of-roman-empire/ the url says it all, the end of the Roman Empire and the descent into a cold wet phase of northern European climate

At www.archnews.co.uk/feature/5322-researchers-map-out-ice-sheets-shrinking-during-ice-age/ ... the University of Sheffield has created a series of virtual maps to show how the ice sheet shrank at the end of

National Geographic News Feb 18th had a piece on exploration of underwater caves on the Yucatan peninsular where they have found some interesting objects (http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

At www.physorg.com/print217429744.html there is a report on a paper due to be published in Nature Geoscience, a news release by the University of Cambridge. It

At http://cosmictusk.com/6th-century-wasteland-secret-volcano-or-cosmic-interaction/ George Howard is adding the 6th century AD volcano or cosmic event to his web site - beginning with two articles which can

Various strange web sites have picked up on Comet Elenin and the faact that initially, its trajectory was at around 8 astronomical units (au) from

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/19/solar-forbush-decrease-in-progress/ ... a forbush decrease is apparently a rapid decrease in the observed cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection. It occurs as

See www.physorg.com/print217169841.html a giant planet bigger than Jupiter is lurking in the Oort Cloud, is the claim. Strangely the author quotes the dodgy science newspaper,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217091132.htm Lake Baikal, the worlds biggest lake, we learn is cold and deep and is giving up some of its secrets. A study in

SIS member JC Hanselman provided the following link, http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orbit=1 but wait for the Java applet to load (some security systems may reject this as a

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/16/going-bananas-over-radiation/ there is a nice post from Anthony Watts on bananas containing radiation. Apparently, several foods are naturally radioactive and bananas in particular due

Significantly, the story comes from an amateur investigator, presumably a diver, (see www.ancientcanalbuilders.com ) who claims he has found unnatural features on the sea bed

At http://spaceweather.com we learn that satellites have detected the biggest solar flare in 5 years - produced from a giant sun spot (in reality a

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/14/pielk-sr-on-the-30-year-random-walk-in-surface-temperature-record/ ... this is a guest post by lukewarmer Roger Pielke Senior with an amusing title on a paper by Fraudrich, Kirk, Schubert and

National Geographic News February 10th, 2011, has a story on the discovery of rock art in Utah that depicts a mammoth (see www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004237.html ). The engraving was