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I try to be tolerant of people's foibles, but one thing that annoys the absolute hell out of me is when someone is obviously ignorant of...

A common -- although, as it turns out, completely understandable -- error is to say that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun. No, I...

There's a general pattern you see in astrophysics, which arises from the fact that gravity is both (1) always attractive, never repulsiv...

All of us learned about gravity in elementary school, often starting with the anecdote about Isaac Newton seeing a falling apple and wonderi...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, astrophysicist Vera Rubin discovered something odd about the rates at which stars were revolving around their ...

Once again, I've had my mind blown by a set of experiments about the behavior of subatomic particles that teeters on the edge of what my...

It seems like whenever I look at the realm of the very large or the very small, I quickly get overwhelmed by scale. I remember, for example,...

I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...

Thanks to a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I now know that apparently there is a growing number of people who believe that water is not H2O....