Skeptophilia

Whenever I post anything about goofy beliefs, urban legends, and superstitions -- like my piece Monday about spells to summon up demons -- i...

In the episode of The X Files  called "Ice," Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are sent with a small team of scientists to a remote Arcti...

An announcement a few weeks ago by microbiologist Jean-Michel Claverie of Aix-Marseille University that he and his team had successfully re...

In the episode of The X Files  called "Ice," some geophysicists working in northern Alaska bring up a 250,000 year old ice core fr...

It's said that there's no cloud without a silver lining, but sometimes the silver lining just adds to the whole situation's poig...

In the first pages of Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers , a woman out walking her dog in rural Maine stubs her toe on an object prot...

The classic account of the origins of Native Americans is that during the last Ice Age, the seas were lower, and what is now the floor of th...

Two of my biggest interests are genetics and linguistics, so when there's a study that combines the two, it makes my little heart go thu...

As you might expect from someone who is passionately interested in both genealogy and evolutionary genetics, when there's a study that c...

You might have heard about people consuming pills of dried shark cartilage as nutritional supplements.  They're still widely available,...