Dispatches From Turtle Island

A new paper determines from astronomy measurements that there have been no changes to the electromagnetic coupling constant (a.k.a. the fin...

Interstellar travel at speeds slower than light isn't really viable in human lifetimes from Earth, but it would be in many cases in the ...

Overview A new pair of preprints, whose abstracts and citations are set forth below, examine the sphaleron energy threshold with newly updat...

 

Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and high energy physics, and was a female Chinese physicists in an era where wo...

Supersymmetry, and its further elaboration, string theory, have turned out to be the biggest wrong turns in the history of high energy physi...

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The use of kanji (Chinese characters) relative to kana (a phonetic script) in Japanese, has slowly and steadily declined in the Japanese lan...

MONG is another notable modified gravity explanation of dark matter, with this paper focusing on the intra cluster medium, a relatively nove...

Razib Kahn has a short little recap of what ancient DNA and other sources tell us about the ancestors and linguistic origins of the Germani...

John Hawks, an anthropologist who specializes in archaic hominins, considers at his blog what the term "scientific consensus" mea...

Ancient DNA from the Iron Age and classical Greco-Roman era reveals that the Punic people were much closer genetically to the Greeks and mod...

Astronomers have scoured existing solar system astronomy data from two different collaborations, twenty-three years apart, to identify a sin...

Hypothetical particles of "Cold dark matter" usually has a natural tendency to form a cusp at the center of a galaxy. But this isn...

 

A stubborn astrophysicist denies the strong evidence that dark matter, if it exists, is not significantly made up of primordial black holes...

One of the most well studied variants of conventional general relativity is f(R) gravity. As the introduction to the paper below explains: f...

While the jaw bone still isn't enough to develop much of an image of what Denisovans looked like, this is definitely a major, although n...