Skeptophilia

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

I've written here before about the rather sobering topic of mass extinctions, and from what reading I've done on the topic, it alway...

I've always thought it would be amazingly cool to witness a supernova. Imagine it.  Within a few hours, a dim, ordinary-looking star i...

There's a common comment from climate change deniers that I'm sick unto death of, and it usually takes the form of something like ...

Having a rather morbid fascination with things that are big and scary and dangerous and can kill you, I've dealt more than once with top...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a surprising fossil find in China showing that insects had rebounded after the horrific Permian-Triassic Extin...

After the last three days' depressing posts, I thought it was once again time to retreat to my happy place, which is: cool new scientifi...

I love science, but sometimes scientists can be their own worst enemies. The reason I say this is that scientists sometimes have a tendenc...