Dispatches From Turtle Island

A new paper extracting ancient DNA from remains in a tropical area greatly reshapes our understanding of component Neolithic Revolution in t...

 

This map isn't particular ground breaking, new, or scholarly (although I can confirm from my previous knowledge that it is generally cor...

Sabine Hossenfelder surveys a variety of recent tests of General Relativity and of recent idea about how to test it that have not been cond...

Early Modern English, based upon a London dialect used by bureaucrats called "Chancery English" dates to about 1470 CE and is the ...

 From xkcd .

A new paper notes that the formulas used to convert experimental data into the mass of unstable particles like the W, Z and top quark masses...

There is a new official definition of an exoplanet, roughly speaking, a planet in a solar system other than our own. In antiquity, all of th...

A Snowmass 2021 paper on "Astrophysical and Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter" sets forth in its introduction what it sees the b...

A Snowmass 2021 contribution reminds us that there are severe tensions in LambdaCDM parameters that threaten the model itself. In this paper...

It is no secret that I am highly skeptical of the prevailing LambdaCDM paradigm in cosmology today. But I am also hopeful because the sheer ...

There is significant evidence to support the theory that a meteor strike caused the Younger Dryas event.  This event turned a warming period...

Not so long ago, in  results published in 2018, the EDGES radio telescope in Australia made an observation of a particular signal that stron...

"Naturalness" is not a real physics problem. The "hierarchy problem" and the "strong CP problem" and the ...

Usually, I prefer to wait until an experiment or observation has results before discussing a proposal. But this time, the theoretical analys...

Deur's approach to gravity, emphasizing gravitational field self-interactions in weak fields, that are generally neglected on the assump...

The spin-foam approach to quantum gravity is part of the class of approaches, that also include loop quantum gravity and a variety of other ...

A new paper  precisely estimates that the bottom quark pole mass (i.e. its mass at the energy scale of its own mass) is 4180.2 ± 7.9 MeV, as...

This paper suggests a clever experimental method for investigating gravitational self-interaction and determining if the nature of gravity i...