Skeptophilia

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...

Today, we have three stories that are particularly interesting in juxtaposition. The first one is heartbreaking.  A unique species of cactus...

If I asked you to name the deadliest single-event natural disaster to strike the western half of the United States in recorded history, what...