Dispatches From Turtle Island

Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and high energy physics, and was a female Chinese physicists in an era where wo...

John Hawks, an anthropologist who specializes in archaic hominins, considers at his blog what the term "scientific consensus" mea...

Dr. Srini Kalyanaraman has been doing some painstaking work and making slow but steady incremental progress in making sense of the Harappan...

When Did We Learn That The Universe Is Expanding? There is no reasonable doubt that the size of the observable universe has expanded over th...

Image via Wikipedia A post at Language Log explains how multispectral imaging from ten years ago (which was just recently released due to t...

Chinese astronomers without telescopes saw a "guest star" as bright as Saturn in the year 1181 CE for about six months, which is n...

This paper on ancient astronomy is relevant to dating the Rig Veda itself, and by association, the timing of the Indo-Aryan migration to In...

A 4,000-year-old circular structure resembling Minoan tomb architecture was unearthed near Kastelli, Crete, suggesting it could be the legen...

The Past Modern physics started a little more than a century ago in the early 1900s.  The state of physics immediately before that point is ...

For those of you who aren't  Young Earth Creationists  (as about 0.1% of scientists and 46% of American adults are) or  Flat Earthers  (...

More than 14 chemical elements have been discovered in my lifetime. That's more than were discovered in the entire history of humanity t...

In AD 79, Mt Vesuvius, a volcano in Italy, erupted burying several nearby Roman towns, including Pompeii and Herculaneum . With new advanc...

  These guys, combined, left us with a pretty simple explanation of what the stuff in the Universe is made out of that remains perfectly ade...

The Old European Culture blog in yet another thought provoking post  muses on possible Sumerian roots of the Menorah in Jewish culture. 

  From here .

French mathematician Évariste Galois was a B-list genius whose work made otherwise insoluble equations possible to calculate with and solve,...