Skeptophilia

A couple of months ago, I wrote about a discovery that has startling (and encouraging) implications for the search for extraterrestrial life...

Back in my teaching days, I was all too aware of how hard it was to generate any kind of enthusiasm for the details of biology in a bunch of...

It's remarkably difficult to decide exactly what we mean when we say something is alive . As a biologist, this is kind of embarrassing...

It will come as no surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that one of my dearest wishes is to live long enough to see incontrovertible...