Skeptophilia

Today's post is about a pair of new scientific papers that have the potential to shake up the world of cosmology in a big way, but first...

I have a problem with how people use the word miracle . The dictionary definition is "a surprising and welcome event that is not explic...

Why is there something rather than nothing? It's the Mother of All Existential Questions, and has been batted around for as long as ther...

Arno Allan Penzias was born on the 26th of April, 1933, in Munich, Germany.  It was a fractious time for Germany, and downright dangerous f...

Sometimes simple words can be the hardest to define accurately. For example, in physics, what do we mean by the word structure ?  The easies...

A major underpinning of our understanding of physics has to do with symmetry  and conservation laws . Both have to do with order, balance, a...

When I put on water for tea, something peculiar happens. Of course, it happens for everyone, but a lot of people probably don't think ab...

The things that keeps astrophysicists up at night are the irritating little questions about the universe that are simple to ask, and wildly ...

It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here.  According to the current most widely-accepted cosmo...