Dispatches From Turtle Island

The Dutch are culturally very modern and rather cosmopolitan, despite having a small country (half the size of South Carolina in area) as a...

A new paper managed to extract a lot of information out of a single sample of very old chewing gum - a date, a complete human genome of the...

The find isn't terribly unexpected or paradigm breaking. But, it illustrates that there is still plenty of relatively low hanging fruit...

A "selective sweep" is basically a discrete instance of a gene variant's frequency changing due to some form of natural selec...

A proton is a composite particle made up of three valence quarks (two up quarks and one down quark) and myriad "sea quarks" which...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visibl...

Sea levels are nearing an all time high due to global warming. [S]ea levels in the central Indian Ocean have risen by close to a meter ...

There is no serious doubt that the Munda languages of South Asia arrived starting around 3000 BCE from Southeast Asia via rice farmers. A n...

This reaffirms the paradigm and status quo, that Homo erectus had a million year run in Asia and vanished shortly (percentage-wise) before ...

From here .

Executive summary Is dark energy the dominant kind of stuff in the universe?  Maybe not.  A credible analysis of a data set muc...

I'll comment more if I have time, but the headline points out what I think is the most notable point. This kind of Y-DNA diversity does...

From here .

Scientists at the Institute for Nuclear Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Atomki) have posted findings showing what could be...

The paper does not consider whether the MOND external field effect (EFF) can adequately explain the departure from the mass discrepancy-acc...

A Summary Of Top Quark Mass Measurements Direct measurement of the top quark mass   ATLAS: lepton+jets events at 8 TeV (20.2 fb−1 ). ......