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www.sciencenews.org June 26th ... pieces of copper slag from smelting activity have been found in Serbia dating back as early as 7000 years ago. This

www.physorg.com/print196606682.html June 24th ... is an interesting article on a rapid warming event 40,000 years ago, which is well documented in palaeo-climate science sources. However,

Hambledon village, between Henley and Marlow, a short distance from the Thames Long Distance footpath, is an upmarket village with a nearby winery and toff

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uog-sbn062310.php we have an article that suggests Neanderthals separated from other Homo sapiens as early as one million years ago - going by DNA analysis. Once

www.physorg.com/print196587370.html asks, Was Venus once a habitable planet? Did it once have an ocean? This is an exercise in computer modellingt - read with a

At www.physorg.com/print196085867.html June 18th ... coming up to our July meeting on Wal Thornhill's theory of electricity in the universe we may note a paper published

At www.physorg.com/print196059921.html June 18th ... in looking at ice cores from up to 800,000 years ago scientists have found a link between ice melt and

At www.physorg.com/print196090397.html we are informed that in nature random signals often fall mysteriously in step, one after the other. Fireflies flashing sporadically in the early

BBC News Thursday June 17th ... experts have used scientific dating techniques to show the chronology of ancient Egypt is largely right. C14 was used to

At http://cosmictusk.com we have a couple of stories on what is an ongoing debate - have scientists found evidence of a cosmic connection with the

At Daily Galaxy we have an interesting story on June 15th (www.dailygalaxy.com) .... on meteorites and panspermia. This might be a bad example of scientists

The recent Jupiter impact, a week or so ago, has left behind a mystery. It produced a flash of light so bright it was visible

www.physorg.com/print195831471.html June 15th ... reports on attempts to extract further information from fossilised creatures - the behaviour of ancient life forms. I don't know if

www.plosone.org ... the online journal PLoS One has an article on the differences between palaeo-americans and amerindians, a huge morphological dissimilarity involving crania shape and

At www.livescience.com/technology/Rare-Earth-Elements-100614.html June 15th ... mentions the recently discovered mineral wealth of Afghanistan, worth an estimated one trillion dollars. These include rare earth elements such

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