Skeptophilia

I live only a few miles from the tallest waterfall in the eastern half of North America, which is not Niagara Falls but Taughannock Falls. T...

William Shatner, of Star Trek  fame, wrote some profoundly moving words in his book Boldly Go , about his experience riding into space on J...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  might recall that about a year ago, paleontologists announced the discovery of a bird fossil from northeast...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists who have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that our common-sense perception ...

Just about anywhere you are in the world, you are confronted constantly with invasive species. Some are so ubiquitous we've stopped even...

I have recently become aware of the phenomenon, apparently of long standing, of various cranks, misfits, wags, and malcontents seceding from...

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post claiming that someone had programmed an artificial intelligence to cast magical spells, and that sent me do...