Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# politics
Sometimes the comments are more telling than the reporting on an important issue in science education.
# education
If we want more people to understand how evolution works and why it's such an important concept, we need to improve how we teach them about it.
# science
Serious publications should not give creationists the time of day. Their reputations are at stake.
# astrobiology
Trying to figure out how smart alien life forms may be will involve jettisoning a lot of cliches about intelligence.
# science
The famed naturalist and father of evolution is getting the worst birthday present this year.
# oddities
What happens when you think a little too deep about biological weirdness in ads.
# science
We've tried eugenics in real life. It was an absolute failure.
# education
Scientifically-illiterate politicians should not be deciding how science will be taught in schools.
# science
If Intelligent Design wants to be taken like a serious science, it needs to learn to follow the basics of the scientific method.