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Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased tow...

If I asked you to name the driest spots on Earth , I wonder if this one would come to mind -- even though it's a top contender for the n...

One of the most amazing strides that's been made in science in the last hundred years is our ability to figure out how old stuff is. Geo...

So far loyal readers of Skeptophilia  have sent me four different links to the same underlying story, along with a message along the lines o...

Thanks to a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I found out yesterday that those of you who would like a nice place to retire can now ...

In the episode of Doctor Who  called "The Ark in Space," the Fourth Doctor says, "Homo sapiens.  What an inventive, invincibl...

When I first read C. S. Lewis's book Out of the Silent Planet , when I was in high school, one of the things that struck me was his visi...

I know that a lot of us have been pretty distressed by the people who have successfully been elected or appointed to positions in the federa...

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's post about a guy who claims to have had an alien mistress, today we have: a cannonball on Mar...

People who are in the know about artificial intelligence research have quipped that true AI is "twenty years in the future -- and alway...

Thanks to a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I found out yesterday that those of you who would like a nice place to retire can now ...

I'm getting a little fed up with the continual stream of aberrant stuff that the Mars Rover keeps finding on the Martian surface. So f...