Skeptophilia

You know, I'm beginning to think that every time I want to write a piece about cosmology or physics, I should just write "Einstein ...

I was driving through Ithaca, New York a while back, and came to a stoplight, and the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that said, ...

One of the most mind-blowing revelations from science in the past two hundred years came out of a concept so simple that a sixth-grader coul...

I honestly don't understand how there are people who don't find science exciting. Yes, I know that identifies me as a science nerd...

Despite all of the daily litany of depressing and/or fury-inducing news, I'm pleased to say that the scientists are still hard at work s...

I keep waiting for a day to go by in which someone in the Trump administration doesn't say something completely batshit insane. The la...

Yesterday, we looked at how apparently it's impossible for some people to believe that a 79-year-old man in poor health could die in his...

Today we have two stories that are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, we have an article by Jo Marchant over at Medium entitled,...