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An interesting study at https://phys.org/news/2020-01-counterclockwise-puzzle-early-neolithic-ho... ... Early Neolithic house plans in central and eastern Europe appear to display small changes in orientation and this has

Sent in by William and by Gary, and Robert as well. Ay www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7868821/ ... a crater has been uncovered that was left behind by what

The two links below were sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7870125/ ... Mars is losing water faster than previously thought we learn. This may effect

Tricky one this. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/discovery-of-17000-y... .... concerns the discovery of a Palaeolithic Venus figurine which is said to be 17,000 years old. It was unearthed

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7868431/ ... we have a rather misleading header - 'mysterious Viking inscription reveals they feared climate change'. As most of modern climate  change is

This story has been sent in by Gary - see www.newscientist.com/articles/2229021-mercurys-outer-layers-may-have-bee... ... and yes, it really does say the outer layers of Mercury may have

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/2500-year-old-scythi... ... a well preserved Scythian warrior grave was opened up by Polish archaeologists in Siberia. It comes from what is described as a

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html ... new evidence that a key assumption concerning the discovery of dark energy is faulty. We might even ask at this part if

This topic keeps on popping up in Creationist circles. Robert sent in the link to Dr Wile, a cool headed chap, but somebody certain that

Another icthyosaur skeleton has emerged - this time from a Somerset beach. A dog walker discovered the ancient fish in rocks that had eroded as

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/archaeologists-unear... ... archaeologists have unearthed what appears to be dwellings at Dewerstone and White Tor on Dartmoor - going back to the early to

At www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/20/earths-rotation-is-mysterious... ... back in 2017 we were told at Forbes that scientists think 2018 and 2019 might turn out to be years in which

At www.newscientist.com/article/2227146-ancient-monkey-painting-suggests-br... ... some see the Minoans as early forerunners of the Phoenicians but more importantly there was a three pronged trading by ship activity

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fossil-shells-reveal-global-mercury.html ... concerns fossil oyster shells found in Alabama (along the Tombigbee River) among other diverse locations. They date back 66 to 72 million

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-brazil-pampas-triassic-flourished.html ... this concerns a top of the food chain dinosaur, the Gnathovorex. It was ten feet long and bigger than other dinosaurs at

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-archaeological-discoveries-reveal-birch-ba... .... which is derived from the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2019) see www.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102118 .... for open acess full article. Scientists have identified

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-story-rewriting-human-history-dna.html ... rewriting human history using DNA. Joshua Akey of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is trying to better understand our links with

Robert sent in links to www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/10/18/Ancient-microbes-are-living-inside-E... ... and www.icr.org/article/11733/ .... and adds, in chaper 6 of his book, 'The Deep Hot Biosphere', Thomas Gold documents

At https://phys.org/news/2017-06-secret-square-beneath-world-famous-avebury... ... back in the summer of 2017 we had a report on the discovery of a small square anomaly on geophys which was

At https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222560 ... or https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222560.g001 ... as well as https://phys.org/news/2019-12-ancient-mediterranean-seawall-defense-sea.... ... a submerged 7000 year old village and sea wall are said to represent the