Consider this a PSA for aspiring biohackers: gene therapy does not work if you literally drink the genes.

Today is the day when we look back at what we accomplished in space and ask ourselves how we can do more.

The results of the biannual scientific literacy survey conducted by the National Science Foundation are so embarrassing, the organization felt the need to censor some of the results.

Ayala shows us that the accommodationist ruse only works as long as no one can pin down your concrete views on where belief ends and science begins.

According to Scott Southworth, teaching teenagers how to use birth control is essentially the same crime as showing pornography to a minor.

A thought experiment on what might happen if you try to teleport your way through traffic in front of a police car.

The military is running out of nerds and worries it doesn't have enough to develop and control its future high tech weapons. But the government isn't about to incentivize STEM students with anything other than PR...

Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.

What the Catholic Church allowed its priests to do to children without consequence is monstrous and inexcusable. But the priests and their amoral henchmen are trying to find excuses anyway.

According to a Muslim creationist, Allah is less of a deity and more of a programmer with a mad scientist streak.

According to biology pioneer J. Craig Venter, the first step to personalized medicine and new tools to fight cancer are faster computers.

A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.

Convergent evolution is a very real phenomenon, but how likely is it to apply across different worlds?

We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.

Chris Steadman and the (Non)Prophet Blog are very upset at my criticism and are ready to diligently dodge every one of my arguments.