In the News

I was watching BBCs 'Springwatch' a couple of days ago and Chris Packham mentioned that the colours of butterflies are produced not by pigments but

Meanwhile, at http://calderup.wordpress.com June 14th we have two interesting posts. The first one is on the topic of aeroplanes accidentally making holes in clouds and

At www.science.daily.com/releases/2010/06/100613212708.htm June 11th ... scientists at Durham University's Physics department used satellite data to study the remnant heat of the Big Bang - via

A web site that might interest SIS members, http://gks.uk.com which is run by Gary Gilligan, a contributor to the www.thunderbolts.info web site and a member of SIS

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100614101724.htm we have a story about an Iron Age grave in Norway that dates somewhere between 600 and 1000AD which contained a prehistoric stone

www.physorg.com/print195668903.html June 13th ... Romanian archaeologists have found ancient cave paintings aged between 23,000 and 35,000 years ago. They are drawings of buffalo, horse, and

The Times May 29th .... archaeology correspondent Norman Hammond reported on an exhibition in New York, at the Metropolitan, 'Tutankhamun's Funeral'. A decade before the

At www.dailygalaxy.com June 11th .... we have 'You couldn't make this up dept; our universe is 150 billion years old' - it seems a group

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122842.htm June 10th ... a connection has been made between La Nina sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean and drought in western

www.physorg.com/print195394956.html June 10th (see also Science Daily) ... comets may once have orbited other stars before becoming attached to our Sun according to a theory

www.culture24.org.uk June 11th ... Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre are putting on an exhibition of excavations that have taken place in the limestone gorge

www.physorg.com/print195306308.html June 9th ... for a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles

At www.physorg.com/print195297437.html ... NASA are closely watching the Sun as it begins to come alive. The concern is solar storms - or flares with the

At www.physorg.com/print195192885.html June 9th ... our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions on how nitrogen in the atmosphere reacts

At www.physorg.com/print195145467.html ... in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences it is being said that dust and pollen in the atmosphere causes higher

www.physorg.com/print195150398.html June 7th ... a paper in the June issue of the Astronomical Journal was written on completion of a census of visible quasars that

www.turkmenistan.ru/ June 8th ... Turkmenistan in Russia, excavations in the capital city Ashgabat have found there was a settlement there going back to the 6th

At www.thunderbolts.info one of the forum subjects concerns the discovery in the area of Lake Mungo and Lake Victoria in Australia of the bones of

The SIS Study Group meeting at Teddington in June 2010 revolved around a talk by SIS member Tony Haynes, with the title 'The Quantum Electro Dynamic

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100603091823.htm ... glaciers in Tibet were never much larger than they are now -  even at the height of the Ice Age and in spite