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The earliest living things, way back in the Precambrian Era, were almost certainly either autotrophs (those that could produce their own nut...

I got in a friendly argument online a few days ago with someone who finds my reliance on the scientific method "limited."  (His wo...

One of the most terrifying alien species in the Star Trek  universe is the Borg, a hive-mind collective of interlinked cyborgs that reproduc...

A paper in Nature last week blew my mind from several different perspectives. Entitled, " Evidence for Early Life in Earth's Oldest...

I used to teach a semester-long introduction to neuroscience course.  It was a popular class; let's face it, the human brain and sensory...

I'm fully in support of pure research, which should be obvious to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia .  But sometimes I run ...

I have to admit to a morbid fascination with things that can kill you in nasty ways. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, mass extinctions ...

Yesterday, we looked at the fact that scientists have actually  not  admitted that vaccines cause autism.  Today, we consider the fact that ...

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

One of the things that even folks conversant in the evolutionary model sometimes don't know is the extent to which we are composite orga...

When evaluating a claim, it's often as important to recognize which questions to ask as it is to understand the science behind the claim...