Dispatches From Turtle Island

Background The sum of the square of each of the fundamental boson masses, plus the sum of the square of each of the fundamental fermion ma...

One of the next posts that I plan on doing is a compilation of the most notable cases of scientific or anthropological results that were lat...

The circular stone enclosures known as the temple at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey remain the oldest of its kind, dating back to a...

Around 3700 BCE,Ireland had a full fledged sedentary farming village society. In the three hundred years that followed, apparently due to a...

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has measured the strong force coupling constant at Z boson mass-energy to be 0.1151 +/- 0.00...

A new paper has made progress in firmly establishing absolute chronological dates for various phases of ancient Egyptian prehistory.

"The timing and history of Neandertal gene flow into modern humans."  S. Sankararaman et al.    Previous analyses of modern hum...

Lubos has posted a guest post making a vigorous defense of the Bohmian Pilot Wave Theory interpretation of quantum mechanics  in response to...

The original release of the Planck 2013 CIB (cosmic infrared background radiation) data in March of this year excluded critical data on anis...

Dienekes' Anthropology blog recounts abstracts of conference papers providing an immense number of new ancient DNA data sets from Europe...

The plenary opening and closing addresses at academic conferences are often hotbeds of cutting edge conjecture by the gray beards of the dis...

Some of the "new physics" theories that receive the most academic attention are in my view, looking at the field from a "fore...

Modified Gravity theory (MOND) is a simple empirical relationship that has been predictive (most recently here ) at explaining gravitational...

Old Homo Erectus Dates In China Confirmed Newly refined age estimates for the oldest hominin sites in China, establish that Homo Erectus s...

Daya Bay's first results were announced in March 2012 and established the unexpectedly large value of the mixing angle theta one-three,...

What are the most important questions we need experiments to answer in physics right now? Here is my list: 1. Discover or reduce the ex...

The top quark is the heaviest fundamental particle and is also heavier than any possible hadron made of two or three, or even theoretically ...

Matt Strassler's blog reports on day one of the SEARCH workshop in Stoney Brook, New York and in particular on presentations by Raman S...

Jean-Philippe Bruenton has made some interesting model-independent predictions in a pre-print regarding the phenomenological laws of quantum...

A new study  (open access) has convincingly linked the dramatic events around 1200 BCE in the Eastern Mediterranean called "Bronze Age ...