Skeptophilia

In my short story "Retrograde," the main character, Eli, meets a woman who makes the bizarre claim that she experiences time runni...

"Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve." This rather mind-blowing statement by groundbreaking Am...

One of the coolest (and most misunderstood) parts of science is the use of models . A model is an artificially-created system that acts like...

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 ...

Dear Readers, I will be taking a short break -- this will be my last post until Thursday, April 27.  Please keep suggesting topics, though! ...

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...

Of all the bizarre and fascinating discoveries physicists have made in the last century and a half, I think the one that twists my brain the...

I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal Science  there was a very cool paper abou...

I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...