Skeptophilia

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...

There's an interesting concept called sensitive dependence on initial conditions . Here's a simple example.  If you take a deep bowl...

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...

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...

If I asked you to name the driest spots on Earth , I wonder if this one would come to mind -- even though it's a top contender for the n...

252 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a confluence of Very Unfortunate Events. First, most of the large continental land masses locked...

When you think about it, it's unsurprising that our ancestors invented "the gods" as an explanation for anything they didn...

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...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation  (AMOC), sometimes nicknamed "the Atlantic Conveyor," is an enormous oceanic curre...