Dark Matter Hunt Needs an Endpoint
October 22, 2025
Scientists should not be free to speculate forever when evidence is lacking.
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Archives: Oxygen, Early Mature Universe, Cell Proofreading, More
January 11, 2025
This set of entries from January 2002 contains major announcements that we have cited ever since.
Axions: Another Dark Matter Candidate Not Found
December 6, 2022
The endless quest for a dark matter particle comes up empty again. Too much is invested in the search to give up.
Cosmologists Reverse Their Dogmas
May 23, 2022
Oops! The Previous Astronomical Conclusions May Be Wrong: The universe’s expansion may not continue forever, but “could stop expanding ‘remarkably soon’.” by Jerry Bergman, PhD According to an article in Live Science, the “oscillating universe” might be coming back in vogue.[1] A paper in PNAS by Paul Steinhardt, Director of the Princeton Center for […]
Galaxy Evolution Crisis: Start Over
April 27, 2017
When you see the words "challenging" and "requires substantial revision" in the abstract, you know trouble is coming.
Trouble in Cosmologyland
September 18, 2011
Underneath the veneer of certainty portrayed by TV documentaries about the universe are deep questions and controversies. Some of these briefly appear on publicly-available news stories, only to be covered by new coats of certainty. Are the new veneers fixing the problems or, instead, whitewashing serious weaknesses in current cosmological understanding? Here are some quick looks under the veneer.