In the News

A few weeks ago, Weather Eye in The Times of London had a short piece beginning, 'something strange is happening to plants: their leaves seem

At https://phys.org/news/2019-08-kepler-forgotten-ideas-symmetry-spiral.html ... Johannes Kepler was interested in symmetry - in such things as snowflakes as well as in space. Kepler suggested it was due

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/mechanism-for-gamma-... ... short and intense flashes of energetic radiation, known as gamma ray bursts, were discovered back in the late 1960s by the Vela

At http://spaceweather.com August 10th 2019 ... a new source of space radiation  has been discovered by researchers from UCLA. A 'natural' particle accelerator just 40,000

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/spanish-archaeologis... ... a large building dating to the middle of the Spanish Bronze Age (between 2100 and 1500BC) is associated with new settlers who

Gary sent in the link to www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/fossil-forest-asia-devonian-period... ... the oldest fossil forest in Asia (or the oldest until an older one is uncovered). It goes

At https://phys.org/news/2019-08-maya-warlike-previously-thought.html ... we have the concept of total warfare during the Classic Maya period. The evidence for this is said to come from lake

Scientists have discovered previously undetected observational evidence of frequent energetic pulses transporting energy from the solar surface to the higher solar atmosphere. Magnetic plasma waves

Gary also sent in a link to www.newscientist.com/article/2211699-the-amazon-rainforest-depends-on-fi... ... it seems the Amazon rainforest gets most of its phosphorous from cooking fires and landscape fires

This is one of those things most people would be unaware of - a church dedicated to Peter and Andrew, two of the apostles in

Gary also sent in this link - https://mol.im/a/7317361 .. which is from his mobile (see www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7317361/) and concerns a graveyard discovered during building work at

Interesting set of links and news items in the September issue of Current Archaeology 354 - which begins with the Mesolithic site at Blick Mead

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-asteroid-earth.html ... Hat tip to William. An asteroid buzzed the earth and was barely noticed. It was 100m across and passed just 70,000 km

Sent in by Robert. Researchers have used scanning technology to make sense of a mysterious subterranean structure - and it may be the oldest church

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-einstein-relativity-theory.html ... we seem to have two camps on Einstein and Relativity. The bigger group of scientists actively do research in order to sustain

A new web site dedicated to rock art (including European cave art) is at www.1902committee.com

In World Current Archaeology 96 (August 2019) (www.world-archaeology.com) we have a two page piece on the latest Neanderthal finds and mention is made of a

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/tfg-sns071219.php ... a strange looking dinosaur but apparently a fairly common herbivore. It has a nose suitable for shovelling that resembles that of an

As canny readers will have observed from images of the previous post on the Greek pyramid in the Aegean Sea there was certainly no pyramid

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/ru-pff071519.php ... apparently, there is no way to prove that a three dimensional 'quantum spin liquid' exists. Physicists have come up with another way