Skeptophilia

In the episode of Star Trek  called "The Return of the Archons," Captain Kirk and the team from the Enterprise  visit a planet whe...

Kids these days, ya know what I mean? Wiser heads than mine have commented on the laziness, disrespectfulness, and general dissipation of y...

The death of massive stars, ten or more times the mass of the Sun, is thought to have a predictable -- if violent -- trajectory. During most...

One of the problems with scientific research is there's a sneaky bias that can creep in -- manifesting as explaining a phenomenon a cert...

One of the most persuasive pieces of evidence of the common ancestry of all life on Earth is genetic overlap -- and the fact that the percen...

If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynami...

Some of you may have heard of the Sylacauga meteorite -- a 5.5 kilogram, grapefruit-sized piece of rock that gained more notoriety than mos...