By Heidi Harley

science / science - 3 weeks ago

Translation #20 of The Debunking Handbook 2020 published!

In November 2011, we published the first version of The Debunking Handbook.& As the update notice on that page already shows, more research has come in since then and the time had finally come for a complete overhaul of this very popular handbook (it still gets downloaded a couple of thousand times...

science / science - 3 weeks ago

Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem!

In Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows, a Mole meets a Water Rat who lives on a River. The Rat explains how the River permeates his life: “It’s brother and sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and drink, and (naturally) washing.” As the River plays many roles in the Rat’s...

science / science - 3 weeks ago

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #48 2024

Open access notables Progression of ocean interior acidification over the industrial era, Müller & Gruber Gruber,& Science Advances: Ocean acidification driven by the uptake of anthropogenic CO2& represents a major threat to ocean ecosystems, yet little is known about its progression benea...

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Spooky Science

It’s our Halloween special from a rain-soaked Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. We find out what you can see in a dark, dark Halloween night sky with space-watcher and Professor of astrophysics Tim O’Brien. Also this week, we meet some blood-sucking leeches, the horrors of pumpkin waste and could zombies...