Skeptophilia

Ever since Donald Trump came on the political scene, bragging that he could shoot someone in full view on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single...

One of the nice things about science is that it allows us to understand the parts of the universe that are beyond common sense.   Don't ...

A couple of days ago my friend and fellow writer Andrew Butters sent me a link about a new fossil discovery .  He hastened to point out tha...

In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...

Ellesmere Island would be high on the list of the Earth's most inhospitable places. It's huge, only slightly smaller in area than B...

If you needed more evidence of how little it takes to get the woo-woos leaping about making excited squeaking noises, look no further than t...

In case you needed more incentive not to take a time machine back to the Cretaceous Period, paleontologists have just discovered a new speci...

I've always had a fascination for maps, and when I was a kid spent many happy hours perusing a huge old world atlas my parents owned. ...

In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...