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The NASA web site had a collection of images as Deep Impact approached Comet Hartley2 and locked its cameras onto the comet nuclei. At www.physorg.com/print208086038.html

At www.dnaindia.com/print710.php?cid=1474879 .... we learn that the Indus Valley civilisation covered a region that included Baluchistan in the west to the Upper Ganga-Yamuna Daub in the

At www.physorg.com/print210426748.html we learn that research at Southampton University is looking at the rate of sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age.

This story keeps popping up from different sources and it looks like there are a number of archaeological explorations of the Brazilian rainforest going on

The big news on sceptic blogs is the acceptance in Journal of Climate of a paper by O'Donnell, Lewis, Condon and McIntyre that refutes a

Member Gary Gilligan whose web site is at www.gks.uk.com has added new information on a new page, and this time has concentrated on the fire

At www.stonepages.com/nes/archives/004126.html there is a bit of speculation that might be just imagination. A standing stone in S Wales which has 75 cup marks gouged

Israeli scientists are drilling into the sea bed of the Dead Sea in the hope of extracting a sediment core going back several hundred thousand

See www.examiner.com for the full story 'Cahokia's woodhenges' - and this is the much advertised mound people of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys that flourished

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/66507/title/Shuttle_images_reveal_Egypts_lost_giant_lake/ ... what is now a huge sand sheet to the west of the Nile was once a lake as large as Lake Erie

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/11/30/3080101.htm there is another story blaming humans for the demise of megafauna in Australia around 40,000 years ago. The paper was published in PNAS

At http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html ... this is a post going back to October 26th 1999 and is probably out of reach of a simple click. A skull

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101118093418.htm researchers have been studying a fossil that appears to be a direct link between an ancient lizard populating Africa and the famous Komodo

The European Space Agency (see www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8270WXGG_index_2.html and see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130122-35.htm ) has discovered a high altitude layer of sulphur dioxide via the Venus Express spacecraft.

At http://cosmictusk.com there is a report, published by the Royal Society, that says that some 4 years ago green fireballs streaked across the sky over

Anyone holidaying in Dorset might be aware that you can walk the undercliff from Lyme Regis to Axmouth in what is now a quite pleasant

At www.nature.com/news/2010/101105/full/news.2010.587.html we have the fruits of research by the Geological Research Association of America on Mayan agriculture. They lived in sprawling densely populated pockets

We can see that climate scientists prefer to dig a hole for themselves rather than address data adjustments openly and in good faith but such

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/65063/title/Central_dogma_of_genetics_maybe_not_so_central/ ... It seems the RNA molecules aren't always faithful reproductions of the genetic instructions contained within DNA, a new study has shown. This

At www.theage.com.au/national/3500yearold-axe-head-places-aborigine-ancestors-at-the-cutting-edge-of-technology/ November 6th ... a 35,000 year old axe fragment found in Arnhem Land in Australia is thought to be the oldest (so far)