Skeptophilia

Recently I've done posts about exploding lakes and colossal solar storms and places where continents are being torn in two, so it seems ...

When I was in college, the original series Cosmos , hosted by Cornell University astrophysicist Carl Sagan, aired for the first time. I was ...

The subject of today's post isn't anything new; it was just new to me, and, I suspect, will be to a good many of my readers, as well...

A couple of weeks ago I looked at the rather unsettling fact that the seeming benevolence of our home planet is something of an illusion.  A...

If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands. ...

If I had to pick the most paradigm-changing discovery of the twentieth century, a strong contender would be the discovery of red shift by a...

After yesterday's post about mysterious explosions in distant galaxies, today I want to look at a colossal explosion that happened much,...

Despite all of the daily litany of depressing and/or fury-inducing news, I'm pleased to say that the scientists are still hard at work s...

It's no great insight that the media likes sensationalized stories, and that a lot of them (including, sadly, some major news outlets) h...