Skeptophilia

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle , a scientist develops a polymorph of ice with a very strange property. Unlike ordinary ice, t...

I'm currently reading James Burke and Robert Ornstein's book The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture of Our Minds and Cult...

Is it just me, or has the quality of the conspiracy theories really been dropping off lately? I mean, back in the day, you had your Moon-lan...

I was chatting with my younger son a couple of days ago.  He's a professional scientific glassblower, so anything having to do with the ...

The list of confirmed exoplanets now exceeds six thousand.  Considering the fact that the three main ways they're detected -- direct me...

One of the more terrifying concepts to arise out of physics is the idea of the Boltzmann brain . The Boltzmann brain was first postulated by...

To end the week on an appropriately surreal note: no, the Earth will not "lose its gravity" for seven seconds on August 12 . I fou...