Skeptophilia

Last week I did a piece on three weird astrophysical phenomena -- odd radio circles, high-energy neutrino bursts, and fast blue optical tra...

Usually, when people think about finding extraterrestrial intelligence, they think of radio transmissions -- a trope that has been the basis...

Saturday's post was about the bizarre behavior of matter on very small scales; today's is about the equally bizarre behavior of matt...

One of my college physics professors made a statement to his class that was mind-boggling in its inaccuracy.  We'd been learning about t...

I introduced yesterday's post, about the discovery that a large percentage of the meteorites seem to have come from a single collision e...

I love a good mystery.  There's something about the phrase "there's something going on here, but we don't know what it is...

I try to keep my rational brain engaged, but man, sometimes it's hard going. Like when I read the story that popped up over at Scientifi...

There are times in science where -- if you're going to describe something accurately -- you rapidly become lost in superlatives. That ...