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Sexual reproduction may be a gamble -- requiring two willing participants being in the same place at the same time -- but its advantages out...

Thanks to my friend, the ever-sharp-eyed author Gil Miller , I now have a giant bruise in the middle of my forehead from doing facepalms. Gi...

One of the main things that separates scientists from the rest of us is that they notice things we very likely just take for granted. Gregor...

Have I told you my favorite joke? Heisenberg and Schrödinger are out for a drive, and a cop pulls them over. The cop says to Heisenberg, who...

In my last post, we looked at a wild story illustrating the general principle that once some crazy claim gets out there, it's damn near ...

After fifteen years of writing here at Skeptophilia , one thing that never fails to amaze me is how little it takes to get a crazy claim goi...

I suppose it was a natural progression. First we had AI art, starting out with the innocent-seeming "Show me what I'd look like as ...