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Mitanni and Nuzi
30 July 2010 Ancient historyRevision of history is rarely mentioned on In the News, mainly as it is a speculative subject. In addition, it is very often a personal
Elevation in the Andes
30 July 2010 GeologyAlong the coastline of South America there are a series of well known stranded beaches which indicate changes in sea level - or seismic shifts.
Chile EQ aftermath
30 July 2010 GeologyAnother link to www.physorg.com/print199692636.html comments on geology in South America investigating the February 2010 earthquake in Chile. It ruptured a very long fault that follows
Fossil Coral Reef Systems
30 July 2010 DatingApparently, samples can be extracted from fossil coral reef systems which can be used to assess sea levels and climate in the past. The process
A trawl of recent archaeology - small in themselves but fatter in the round.
29 July 2010 ArchaeologyTrevor Palmer has provided the response by Bob Porter on the Yahoo New Chronology Forum to the Science article on Bayesian C14 dating and its
Dunes on Titan
29 July 2010 AstronomyNASAs newsletter, at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ July 29th says the mystery of dune patterns on Titan might have been solved. Dune patterns flow in the opposite direction
A 25 Year Theory bears fruition
29 July 2010 AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print199363299.html ... in 1984 space pioneer Dr Robert Forward proposed a way of improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits. His critics
A New Greenland Ice Core in the offing
29 July 2010 GeologyAt www.physorg.com/print199550264.html we learn that a drilling team has reached bedrock in Greenland after 5 years of boring through 2.5km of solid ice. What they
No big bang ... no beginning ... and no end.
29 July 2010 PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print199591806.html July 29th (see www.dailygalaxy.com July 30th) ... Wan-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological model that may bit observations of the
Swarms of black holes and small rock earth like planets in the Milky Way galaxy
28 July 2010 AstronomyAt www.dailygalaxy.com July 28th there are two interesting stories. The first concerns the claim the Milky Way is rich in small rocky earth like planets (with
The Dead Sea Scrolls
28 July 2010 Ancient historyIs this another important discovery - or rather, interpretation (see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls/ July 27th. The mystery is solved according to the headline - but is it?
Homo erectus
28 July 2010 AnthropologyAt www.nature.com/news.2010/100728/full/news.2010.377.html there is a news report issued by Nature on attempts to date, both geologically and historically, a cache of Homo erectus fossils discovered
Sidon
28 July 2010 ArchaeologyThe Daily Star (of the Lebanon - not the red top with the big thingies) (see www.dailystar.com.lb July 28th) says a British Museum delegation to
Donkeys and the Royal Society
28 July 2010 ArchaeologyAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_release/2010-07/uof-adi072810.php there is a report from a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on the domestication of donkeys which claims mobile pastoral
Marden Henge update
28 July 2010 ArchaeologyThe Guardian says archaeologists peeled back a thin layer of turf covering the henge which has miraculously escaped being ploughed up over the last 4,500
Impact craters on the Moon
28 July 2010 AstronomyGo to http://cosmictusk.com/moon-to-earth-new-lro-lunar-crater-analysis-has-potential-to-revise-impact-frequency-for-terrafirma/ ... by comparing modern images of the surface of the moon with images collected by Apollo missions in the 1970s it has
Magnethydrodynamics
28 July 2010 ElectromagnetismMagnethydrodynamics is the subject of a web site at http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/mhd.htm which it is claimed is 'closely related' to plasma dynamics. It involves the dynamics of
Earthquakes in Space
28 July 2010 Electromagnetismhttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/27/space-quakes/ and www.physorg.com/print199554868.html 'Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth' (with video clip, on both sites). Researchers making use of NASAs five THEMIS imaging spacecraft have discovered what
The Romans in Wales
27 July 2010 ArchaeologyWe know the Romans had a big presence in South Wales as the Welsh inherited a number of loan words from Latin but the discovery
Indonesian Geology
27 July 2010 GeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100726144011.htm there is a new intepretation of the Banda Arc, a giant 1000km long 180 degree curve in eastern Indonesia which has never been