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Dear Readers, I am going to be taking a short break from Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post for a week and a half.  Lord willin...

Last week I did a piece on three weird astrophysical phenomena -- odd radio circles, high-energy neutrino bursts, and fast blue optical tra...

Because I'm writing this in the last hours of the Trump presidency, and my other alternative is to become so anxious about what his foll...

I've always found the concept of the Strong Anthropic Principle wryly amusing. The idea here is that something (usually a benevolent d...

One of the strangest phenomena in the universe -- and there's a lot of competition in that regard -- is the neutron star . This is the...