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.
# astrobiology
Panspermia is a hypothesis of how life might have hitchhiked to Earth. It's not meant to explain how life actually began.
# astrobiology
Was Darwin interested in panspermia, the hypothesis that life on Earth was seeded by asteroid impacts?
# evolution
Dinesh D’Souza's exploration of evidence for the afterlife is a feat of intellectual laziness and incuriosity.
# evolution
Of all the places to have a good faith debate about evolution, a forum hosted by a religion reporter against Ray "Banana Man" Comfort is not one.
# evolution
A new study confirms what science advocates have long suspected. Creationism in the classroom undermines the quality of student's education.
# evolution
Like a phoenix of nonsense, Michael Behe rises from the ashes of being proved wrong on his terms and with his conditions by pretending that the exact opposite has happened.
# evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins' latest book, is mostly a primer on evolution rather than a polemic on atheism. And that works perfectly well.
# science
We want to save species threatened by our destruction of our habitat. But what if those species are bound for extinction anyway?
# science
A filmmaker trying to kick-start a controversy to market a biographical movie about Charles Darwin is finding it hard to get attention. But why?
# science
Evolution can explain why you stand upright and have a large brain. It won't explain why you like to watch movies or read books because it doesn't have to.