Skeptophilia

I recall seeing a comic strip a while back making fun of one of the features of Star Trek  that doesn't seem ridiculous until you think ...

While our knowledge of the origin of the universe has grown tremendously in the past hundred years, there are still plenty of cosmological m...

Sometimes simple words can be the hardest to define accurately. For example, in physics, what do we mean by the word structure ?  The easies...

The things that keeps astrophysicists up at night are the irritating little questions about the universe that are simple to ask, and wildly ...

In her brilliant 2011 TED Talk " On Being Wrong ," journalist Kathryn Schulz said, "For good and for ill, we generate these i...