Skeptophilia

The Moon orbits the Earth in such a way that the same side always faces us.  Put another way, its periods of revolution and rotation are the...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about how easy it is to form organic compounds abiotically, today we have: our nearest neighbor mig...

For a lot of people, the most disquieting thing about science is the way it's moved humanity farther and farther from its position as th...

The oft-quoted line from Jurassic Park , "Life finds a way," got interesting support from an (unrelated) pair of studies that came...

It will come as no surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that one of my dearest wishes is to live long enough to see incontrovertible...

Given my fascination with the possibilities of life in other star systems, I was thrilled to read two papers that came out last week detaili...

In the last couple of days we connoisseurs of all things extraterrestrial received some good news and some bad news. Let's start with ...

Because I am totally disheartened by the news, frustrated by the lack of critical thinking everywhere I look, and also because my blender ex...

When I went to graduate school, I think the most surprising thing for me was that we were supposed to think creatively about science.  While...