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I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees 's wonderful book Just Six...

To start out with the tl:dr -- no, despite what you may have heard, physicists do not have a working model of a warp drive . Look, no one wo...

I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

A paper this week in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics  left me scratching my head. To get why it's so puzzling -- and w...

I'm going to say this straight up, in as unambiguous a fashion as I can manage: Given the widespread availability of fact-checking websi...

I was saddened to hear of the death of the brilliant British physicist Peter Higgs on Monday, April 8, at the grand old age of 94.  Higgs i...

A couple of days ago, I was talking with my son about the Standard Model of Particle Physics (as one does). The Standard Model is a theoret...

Today's topic came to me a couple of days ago while I was watching  a new video by one of my favorite YouTubers , Sabine Hossenfelder. S...