Category : science

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...

Images reveal how an orca pod hunts the world’s largest fish

Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

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) wa...

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 ecosystem...

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 leech...