Keywords: galaxies, rotation curves, dark matter In an earlier paper (Faulkner 2017), I described the history of our understanding of dark matter. The story began with Zwicky (1937) showing that the dynamical mass of the…
In teaching his disciples how to pray, Jesus said, “Our Mother in heaven….”1 No, wait, that’s not what he said! Today, however, there are some people who think it is. The gender revolution that has…
So before we jump into Science News’ missing history, what is “plate tectonics”? Well, the article, written by Carolyn Gramling, defines it as “how Earth’s surface is constantly in motion, and how its features—volcanoes, earthquakes,…
Inside your body, bacteria whip their spiral-like “tails,” or flagella, to zip from place to place. Doctors would love to harness this nanotechnology to send remote-controlled nanobots into human bodies and target diseases such as…
A major problem in evolutionary dogma is the origin of new genetic information. Getting new genetic information is required to go from a single-celled organism to a person. A bacterium, for example, simply does not…