In the News

At www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-fermi-large-area-telescope-flares.html - the Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected two gamma-ray pulses coming from the Crab Nebula, fueled by more energetic particles. This has

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/11/2010/exploring-pella-bronze-age-temple-complex/ ... a fortified stone temple complex at Pella in the northern Jordan Valley has remained undisturbed since it was destroyed - allegedly in

This is a story to be found at www.physorg.com/print213449447.html, concerning the discovery that the 'oriental hornet' is able to convert energy from the Sun into

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/01/2011/the-towers-of-ras-al-khaimeh/ ... Ras al Khaimeh is one of the seven Emirates and has a long history of occupation. The archaeology in this piece is

A rather juvenile Guardian report of an archaeological discovery, invoking James Bond, is all about what has been found on the Thames foreshore - part of ongoing research

At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/say-goodbye-to-sunspots.html ... it is recognised that sun spot activity has declined - at the moment, in early January. The surface of the Sun is

This is one of those stories that I find fascinating, a man that has devoted a great deal of his spare time and holidays in

At www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Troy_at_Bergamo_by_John_Lascelles/ we have a post on John Lascelles whose book was reviewed by SIS a couple of years ago. Wikinfo was launched in 2003,

There is a lovely post at WattsUpWithThat today that I will write up tomorrow and add to this post - but looking at www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330 John

At www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?ald=4097 ... is a news release of a reappraisal of the timescale of Polynesian migration across the eastern Pacific via a study of 1400

At hgttp://geology.com/nasa/great-bahamas-bank/ .... there is a NASA image of the Great Bahama Bank as seen from space. It stretches from near the N American land

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/ January 3rd ... we learn that freezing weather is also affecting the tropics - in this instance, the high mountain zones of the

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/neanderthal-face-is-not-cold-adapted/ ... is based on a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution that contradicts the long held belief that the noses of Neanderthals

November 2010 November 4th ... Approaching Comet Hartley2 November 4th ... Mars - asteroid strike? ... gamma ray bubbles and a newly found neutrino November

The ESA and NASA mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has found its 2000th comet (see www.physorg.com/print212806556.html). SOHO was designed to monitor the Sun and

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/new-work-casts-doubt-on-out-of-africa-theory/ ... there is a report on the recent discovery of the remains of humans found at Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha'ayin in modern

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13609 ... we learn that Tel Qudadi, a fortress on the mouth of the Yarkon River (now part of modern Tel Aviv) was not a fortified

At www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/101224candles.htm ... an interesting article by Rens van der Sluijs on illuminated christmas trees - and plasmoids.

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221114807.htm ... a paper in the journal Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology claims that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle in the Pleistocene

This story has been on BBC News and you can read about it at a variety of blogs, including www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131119.htm which is a report on