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Today we have three stories that are absolutely horrifying in juxtaposition. The first is a paper that came out a couple of days ago in Nat...

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...

Sometimes we dodge a bullet. In September of 2023, seismologists all over the world recorded an odd periodic signal that lasted about nine ...

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 ...

With the insane weather we've had this summer -- and which is showing no signs of calming down -- it's easy to forget about another ...

Today we'll stay in an archaeological vein, mostly because a couple of loyal readers of Skeptophilia  read yesterday's post and resp...

One of the most frustrating things is that instead of meeting the challenges we have and then moving forward, we seem to be fighting the sam...

The specter of climate change is getting difficult to ignore.  While you still can't point at a particular event and say "that happ...

2020 has become some kind of nihilist joke.  How many versions of the "2020 Apocalypse Bingo Card" have you heard?  And it does se...