Skeptophilia

The earliest living things, way back in the Precambrian Era, were almost certainly either autotrophs (those that could produce their own nut...

Aficionados of the Star Trek universe undoubtedly recall the iconic character Jadzia Dax.  Dax was a Trill -- a fusion of a humanoid host a...

In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...

One of the most terrifying alien species in the Star Trek  universe is the Borg, a hive-mind collective of interlinked cyborgs that reproduc...

I'm fully in support of pure research, which should be obvious to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia .  But sometimes I run ...

In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...