Dispatches From Turtle Island

A memorial dedicated to the 32 Basque whalers who were killed in the West Fjords in 1615 in what’s known as Iceland’s only mass murder was ...

A blog post by Caitlin Green on the topic appears here .  It was established shortly after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and persis...

Some of the major Y-DNA lineages in Europe are traceable to the early Neolithic era or are even older, while three others (specific subsets ...

John Moffat's modification of gravity, one version of which is called MOG, is a leading alternative to dark matter theories.  A recap at...

El Gordo is the largest known example of two galaxies colliding.  Comparing the X-ray spectrum emissions of hot colliding gas with the visib...

Lubos has a wonderful biography of Oliver Heaviside , a self-taught man from a humble condition who was the source of many of the words and ...

Opah, a kind of fish also known as Moonfish (scientific name Lampris guttatus ), are the first species of warm blooded fish every discovere...

Science Daily reports a new study finding that the universe has disproportionately left handed magnetic fields, rather than equal numbers ...

Finnish flag image via Wikipedia Today is the Day of the Finnish Identity , which is celebrated on the birthday of an early Finnish sta...

The world's most comprehensive English-Chinese character translation key for the Periodic Table of the elements is now available at the...

Siberia has repeatedly swung between being predominantly West Eurasian genetically, and predominantly East Eurasian.  One swing, of early In...

In an early worldwide survey of this kind, division into five clusters unsurprisingly identified (1) Africans, (2) a widespread group inclu...

I'd previously discussed  my ancestry results from 23 and me which can be summarized as follows: Y-DNA haplogroup: E1b1b1a2* (E1b1b1 i...

The two most viable dark matter models are those with a single keV mass dark matter particle (warm dark matter) and self-interacting dark ma...

An mtDNA sample from the tooth of a Proto-Arignacian individual whom radiocarbon data confirms died 40,170 to 35,650 years before present, ...

Eurogenes recounts a new study of South Asian mtDNA with a huge sample size.  Dienekes reports on a new study of mtDNA lineages in indigen...

Map via Wikipedia (not the new study) Dienekes' has a post on a new paper reviewing that range and phylogeny of Y-DNA haplogroup G...

It turns out that there are two different subtypes of type 1a supernovas , with one more common in the early universe, and the other more co...

The final Tevatron mass measurement for the top quark is 174.34±0.64 GeV .  This is the most accurate single measurement of this fundamental...

A new preprint sets bounds on the minimum dark matter mean lifetime of 3.57*10^24 seconds, and also establishes a minimum value for cross-s...