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This information is biased as it comes from a book, Alexander Thom:Cracking the Stone Age Code, by Robin Heath, Bluestone Press, St Dogmaels: 2007, on

See www.rnw.nl/english/print/73299 ... amateur archaeologist Pieter Stoel has found splinters and cores of flint that are thought to date back 370,000 years ago. They were

At www.physorg.com/print188837054.html reports on a delicate instrument under a mountain in central Italy that is observing and detecting rare particles - geo neutrinos. The instrument

Dark Comets - NASA and the WISE mission are being somewhat frugal with the information they are giving out, says George Howard over at http://cosmictusk.com

This is the title of an article in New Scientist (you can also look at the online version at www.newscientist.com March 16th) and speculates on

Science Daily March 26th (www.sciencedaily.com id 100325091430) - Astronomers at Leiden Observatory conducted an intensive survey of 446,000 galaxies in what is known as the

http://www.daytondailynews.com March 26th ... a brief item on a local Ohio man involved in the discovery and excavation of an ancient Assyrian city at Ziyaret

The Daily Galaxy March 25th (www.dailygalaxy.com) has a story that was also featured on Science News (www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57573 ) a day or so earlier. Mitochondrial DNA

BBC News March 24th ... deforestation has revealed what might be a giant impact crater in central Africa - in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The findings

http://news.yahoo.com March 22nd ... a source in Greece has announced the discovery of a wall which stood at the entrance to a cave in Thessaly

www.eurekalert.org March 23rd ... a new method to determine the age of ancient relics has been announced by the American Chemical Society. It will revolutionise

At www.physorg.com/print188500078.html March 22nd ... a new model of the earth which took 20 years to construct offers a precise description of the relative movements of

At www.physorg.com/print188466638.html March 22nd ... is another incredible piece of research. The article has a computer generated image of the surface of Venus created from

www.physorg.com/print188488094.html March 22nd ... 200 million years ago most land on the planet was consolidated into a single continent - Pangea. There was no Atlantic

Science Daily March 22nd ... www.sciencedaily.com/release/2010/03/100322083654.htm ... evolution can apparently proceed much more rapidly than has been thought. This is shown by Magnus Karlsson of

Daily Galaxy, March 22nd (see www.dailygalaxy.com ) ... a team working in an ice free region of high mountains and dry valleys in the Olympus

http://www.australasianscience.com.au/bi2009/301Gaensler.pdf  .. from this site a pdf article can be accessed, Bryan Gaensler, 'The Magnetic Universe' - magnets are everywhere, even in lodestone, and for

At http://cosmictusk.com/rare-bill-napier-essay-giant-comets-messengers-of-life-and-death.html ... an article by Bill Napier can be read on the Cosmic Tusk web site which was published in 'God, the Universe and Man

The Times March 20th ... see Register: Archaeology. The Journal of Anthropological Archaeology reports that scientific analysis has shown one of the Maya kings was

The Copenhagen Post March 19th (www.cphpost.dk/news/ reports on a Danish analysis of DNA from a Viking cemetery near a 1000 year old church in southern