Ethan Siegel
Viewpoint: Health quacks like Mehmet Oz and Joe Mercola — and many mainstream environmental groups — use fear to promote their ideological agendas
Concern trolling is basically when you pretend to care about an issue in order to undermine and derail any measures ...
Nature appears to have uniform laws guiding existence and evolution. Why?
In many ways, it’s the most remarkable fact of all about the Universe: that the constituents, the laws, and the ...
Mars may once have housed life. Did it come from Earth?
In all the Universe, only Earth is known to be inhabited. But even among the Milky Way, billions of other ...
‘The existence of multiple universes sounds like science fiction, but observations within theoretical physics suggest it is possible, — and potentially inevitable’
One of the most compelling ideas in all of physics sounds like pure fiction, but it could actually describe our ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic crops are healthier than GMOs,’ and 6 other anti-science myths we should forget
As much as we hate to acknowledge it, many of the once-viable ideas that are swimming around in the memory ...
We have 4 ways to search for alien life. Where should we focus our resources?
There are, right now, four ways to search for alien life, ranging from the most passive to the most active ...
There are 3 types of alien life we might find out there
Our existence here is proof enough that it can happen. We can imagine that if life comes to exist anywhere else ...
Viewpoint: Universe started with a bang, will end with a frigid ‘slow, gradual death’
When will our universe reach the point of maximum entropy? And what other possibilities exist for our universe in the ...
Only you: What are the odds of your unique existence?
In order for you to exist, a great many unlikely events needed to unfold in exactly the way that they ...