Dispatches From Turtle Island

Ancient DNA has resolved the longstanding question of whether the Red Deer Cave People who lived in China a few thousand years before the Ho...

Deur's analysis of the self-interaction of gravitational fields addresses the Hubble tension. One of the most important problems vexing ...

It is becoming ever more clear that the BMW calculation of the Standard Model expected value of muon g-2 (which is consistent with the expe...

I missed this paper when it was released.  Discoveries at a rock-shelter in southern France put H. sapiens in Europe as early as 56,800 year...

Scientists at the Belle experiment have made progress in pinning down the value of a physical constant that represents the probability of a ...

The three waves of migration revealed by ancient DNA from Crete conforms to the existing paradigm (and tends to support the connection of th...

  Science should be democratic, in that it should be open to scientific contributions from anyone, and its stylistic conventions can be deci...

The Standard Model assumes, and there are multiple theoretical arguments to support, that there is no charge parity (CP) violation (which is...

The best available measurements and theory suggest that given the mass of the Higgs boson and the running of various Standard Model physics ...

Yet another apparent experimental observation discrepancy from the Standard Model bites the dust, although, this particular one had already ...

A rich ancient DNA collection from elite burials in Southeast Spain during the Bronze Age establishes that this society probably had heredi...

The Elamite language is a historically attested, but undeciphered language historically used in Southwestern Iran from about 2600 BCE to 33...

I am a dad, so I am allowed to tell dad jokes.

Someday, the mountain of data, including this factor of many, is going to get the consensus of astrophysicists and cosmologists to abandon t...

Theorists have found a way to solve complex Feynman integrals numerically by reducing them to simple linear algebra. From Science . If you d...

My method is a little different, and I have no patience for podcasts, but still, our robot overlords will catch up someday.  

A historical fiction account of the real historical Vlad the Impaler , who became a model for Count Dracula is long overdue. But Netflix has...

The genetics point to a history of cat domestication that fits conventional wisdom in zoology from non-genetic evidence. Cat domestication l...

Everywhere that agriculture was invented modern humans developed accurate calendars to guide them regarding when to plant and harvest their ...

The Standard Model cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our universe. This imbalance indicates undiscovered physics th...