Skeptophilia

One of the coolest things about science is the cross-fertilization that happens between disciplines. I'm always impressed when I see exa...

In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who h...

Although you don't tend to hear much about it, the Ordovician Period was a very peculiar time in Earth's history. From beginning (4...

Let me start out by saying that what you're about to read is in no way meant to be critical of scientists in general, nor the entire sci...

You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes 's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nas...

Today we have three stories that are absolutely horrifying in juxtaposition. The first is a paper that came out a couple of days ago in Nat...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the spike in atmospheric oxygen concentration -- by some estimates, rising to 35% -- during the Carboni...

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover fro...

Like many people, I've been watching the news, photographs, and video footage coming in from the fires in the Los Angeles region with fe...