Skeptophilia

While I understand being deeply fascinated with a specific subject, there's a point at which an interest becomes an  idée fixe .  The re...

One of the topics I keep coming back to here at Skeptophilia is the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.  I have to admit, it'...

I grew up watching television shows like  Lost in Space  and  Star Trek , and the first movie I ever saw in the theater was 2001: A Space Od...

It's all too easy lately to find reasons to criticize humans.  I'm guilty of contributing to it myself, by my focus on pseudoscienti...

Sometimes, I swear the universe is listening to me. In my post yesterday, a story about the "Falcon Creek Incident" in Manitoba,...

In the first pages of Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers , a woman out walking her dog in rural Maine stubs her toe on an object prot...

Two years ago I wrote about a project called Breakthrough Starshot , which proposed sending small remote-controlled cameras to nearby star s...

New from the "Well, At Least They're Going About It The Right Way" department, we have: the US Navy's new guidelines for r...

I love science, and am delighted with the progress we've made in understanding the universe.  This has come along with a lightning-fast ...

In the first pages of Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers , a woman out walking her dog in rural Maine stubs her toe on an object prot...