Skeptophilia

There's a long list of what have been nicknamed "phantom islands" -- islands that have been recorded on maps, sometimes for ce...

I absolutely love the fact that there are real phenomena that science hasn't yet explained. It's not just from the standpoint of ...

Sometimes, the first thing you have to do in order to explain a mysterious phenomenon is to show that the mysterious phenomenon actually exi...

Coming hard on the heels of an encouraging paper about the possibilities of near-light-speed travel, at which we might potentially have prob...

It's amazing what scientists sometimes miss. This is not meant to be any kind of indictment of scientists, or science in general.  I...

I think the homeopaths have reached some kind of Derp-vana this week with the announcement by British practitioner Grace DaSilva-Hill that ...