Skeptophilia

Ever heard of 3753 Cruithne ? I hadn't, which is surprising considering my obsession with astronomy.  It's an asteroid which is in a...

If I had to vote for the single weirdest place in the Solar System, my choice would be Jupiter's moon Io . Io is the innermost and third...

A lot of times, it's the simple, easily-stated questions that are the hardest to answer. Take, for example, the question of how the Mo...

One of the main things that separates scientists from the rest of us is that they notice things we would just take for granted. Gregor Men...

It's way too easy to let yourself get caught up in all the ugliness in the news. Scandals, allegations of crimes of all sorts by vario...

It's no great insight that the media likes sensationalized stories, and that a lot of them (including, sadly, some major news outlets) h...