# tech
Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
# space
Another day, another example of comic numerology making big claims and falling on its face.
# space
The Daily Galaxy promotes a paper with demonstratively erroneous conclusions about the age of the universe, and very sketchy origins.
# space
Astronomers find a star that's larger, brighter, and heavier than what we thought could still exist.
# science
Here's to hoping that the Discovery Channel does right by Phil Plait's show...
# politics
WikiLeaks' stunt is unlikely to end well for informants helping to fight the Taliban and seems designed only to boost Assange's profile.
# tech
Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?
# science
Quantum time travel experiments hint that physics creates closed time loops, meaning you can't change history.
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# science
The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
# health
National healthcare systems are getting sick and tired of paying for expensive placebos.
# education
As more Americans are rethinking the value of a college education, some humanities scholars are advocating not just more college, but the least employable majors possible.
# science
In response to a lengthy presentation debunking his claims, Christopher Monckton did the only thing he knows how to do: throw a massive tantrum.
# tech
Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.
# science
Things are not looking good for ScienceBlogs as the aftermath of the Sodageddon propels more of its writers to escape velocity...
