Skeptophilia

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.  I...

A criticism sometimes aimed at us science types is that our obsession with naming, classifying, and explaining everything in the universe ro...

I remember when I first ran into the rather mind-blowing concept that the familiar elements we have here on Earth -- oxygen, nitrogen, carbo...