Skeptophilia

It's easy to scoff at the superstitious beliefs of the past.  I've certainly been known to do it myself.  But it bears keeping in mi...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

One of the biggest mysteries in science lies literally beneath our feet; the structure and composition of the interior of the Earth. We have...

An announcement a few weeks ago by microbiologist Jean-Michel Claverie of Aix-Marseille University that he and his team had successfully re...

In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...

There's a famous anecdote about British biologist J. B. S. Haldane .  Haldane was a brilliant geneticist and evolutionary biology but wa...

I'm sure most of you have heard of the Norse god Odin, at least from his appearance in the Marvel universe.  My first exposure to this b...