Skeptophilia

One of the main things that separates scientists from the rest of us is that they notice things we very likely just take for granted. Gregor...

Have I told you my favorite joke? Heisenberg and Schrödinger are out for a drive, and a cop pulls them over. The cop says to Heisenberg, who...

It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here.  According to the current most widely-accepted cosmo...

If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynami...

One of the more terrifying concepts to arise out of physics is the idea of the Boltzmann brain . The Boltzmann brain was first postulated by...

I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees 's wonderful book Just Six...

I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal Science Advances there was a very cool p...

To start out with the tl:dr -- no, despite what you may have heard, physicists do not have a working model of a warp drive . Look, no one wo...

Some days, being a skeptic is a losing proposition. Only days after I posted a desperate plea for people to please  check sources before pos...