Skeptophilia

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post about MoND -- modified Newtonian dynamics  -- a new(ish) model of gravitation that purported to e...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, astrophysicist Vera Rubin discovered something odd about the rates at which stars were revolving around their ...

 Physicists have a serious  problem. Back in the mid-1970s, astrophysicist Vera Rubin  made an interesting discovery.  She had initially bee...

Be honest, can you tell me anything about the following people? Annie Jump Cannon Jocelyn Bell Burnell Henrietta Swan Leavitt Willamina...