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Some years ago I was chatting with a geneticist friend of mine about apples. At that point she worked for Cornell University's Apple G...

The history of dyes is actually way more interesting than it sounds. People have been coloring cloth (and pottery, and cave walls, and the...

Okay, just yesterday I said that I was gonna try to keep it light and stop focusing on dismal developments like pandemics and climate catast...

Because I'm tired of doing what we've done here lately, viz. looking at horrible scary things that could wipe out the human race if ...

I am not superstitious -- something that regular readers of Skeptophilia  would hardly need pointed out -- but sometimes I think the univers...

This seems to be a month for astronomical superlatives.  Two weeks ago I posted here at Skeptophilia  about the discovery of the three most ...

Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being dry and humorless. If you doubt the "undeserved" part, consider scientific na...