Dispatches From Turtle Island

Like Deur's approach, Moffat's modified gravity theory does not predict non-Newtonian behavior that is discernible in wide binary st...

Calling it a satellite galaxy may be something of an overstatement, it is really just a satellite of the Milky Way that is a gravitationally...

If correct, this hypothesis would be a major paradigm change in our understanding of how the Sun works, although the seeming lack of influen...

The latest Earth based telescope, the ILMT, is pretty cool. Nestled in the mountains of Northern India, is a 4-metre rotating dish of liquid...

A new paper makes an re-analysis of existing data to determine the top quark pole mass. It comes up with: which is consistent with, but at ...

A new study concludes very emphatically that wide binary stars behave in a manner more like Newtonian dynamics and less like MOND. This seem...

Here's a map of more than 6000 contact-era Native American Villages on the West Coast that were recorded from written accounts or oral t...

The Last Glacial Maximum land bridge in Southeast Asia (ca. 18,000-20,000 years ago) was not the source of dingos in Australia, although thi...

A new Homo Erectus specimen from Ethiopia confirms that this species of archaic hominin arose about 2 million years ago in Africa. This spe...

Altai Neanderthals had significant (6%) modern human admixture from admixture events as much as 250,000 years ago (at the very dawn of the m...

Christopher Columbus was a pretty horrible person , so I have no problem ceasing to honor him with a national holiday. But he was also a uni...

One of the big issues in classification, mostly a terminology question, is where to draw the line between two ways of speaking and writing b...

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but experiments have now confirmed , at the ALPHA Experiment at CERN , that anti-matter does ind...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand ...