Dispatches From Turtle Island

So close, and yet so far. The goal posts have been moved again. SUSY is no longer well-motivated (and with it SUSY WIMPs as dark matter cand...

Razib Khan has a new piece out on Ethiopian genetics in which he analyzes a sample of modern whole genomes and compares those from Ethiopia...

This post lays out the fact that we know almost all of the fundamental laws of physics, and describes what I see as the most plausible resol...

This paper is both novel and correct, but the novel part is not correct and the correct part is not novel. From a peer review of an academic...

A new pre-print at bioRxiv disputes the status of Papuans (presumably together with aboriginal Australians) as an outgroup to both European ...

Some genes classified as recessive genes that have their main phenotypical effects only when both copies of it are present, are actually onl...

Stacy McGaugh has a reaction blog post to the Scientific American article " What if We Never Find Dark Matter? " by Slatyer ...

Arivero at the Physics Forums (who comments here from time to time) has gotten his article on Koide Triples published: I had put in a prepri...

Context Once of the things that physicists can do, even if our understanding of the laws of physics is complete, is to formally derive the p...

A new paper on South African ancient DNA isn't paradigm shifting but does pin down more precisely when outsiders from different places b...

This very clever analysis strongly constrains the existence of non-gravitational long range interactions between dark matter and ordinary ma...

Commentators have noted the AI trend in both the physics and the chemistry awards this year.  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on We...

This article falls in the category of technical, but potentially important. And the fact that this is framed as a homage to Stanley Deser, o...