Skeptophilia

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

A month ago I looked at a geological oddity called banded iron formations  -- alternating gray and red bands of iron-rich sediments that hav...

Something that strikes me about many scientific discoveries is how they so often come from someone noticing something the rest of us had ove...

Whenever we have a wet summer -- not an uncommon occurrence in our rainy climate -- we have a plague of little pests trying to get into our ...

In the last couple of days we connoisseurs of all things extraterrestrial received some good news and some bad news. Let's start with ...

I think my most common thought, while reading a lot of woo-woo writing, is "Learn some damn science before you pretend you know what yo...