# evolution
A new study confirms what science advocates have long suspected. Creationism in the classroom undermines the quality of student's education.
# science
Your DNA contains useful information that's read and translated, but comparing it to a computer database profoundly misses the point.
# space
If our universe is one of many, just how many others are out there? A duo of physicists try to answer that question. Well, sort of...
# politics
Quacks and cranks are using libel laws to silence critics and skeptics into submission and keep money flowing into their pockets.
# politics
How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.
# science
Laplace was worried this sort of thing might happen and drive mere mortals insane...
# 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.
# space
No, we haven't found life 25,000 light years away, just one sugar molecule that could be used by living things.
# tech
Electric cars and the natural next step in the evolution of transport. But they have some hurdles to clear before becoming truly widespread.
# tech
Fusion simply has far too much promise not to keep pursing, even if the progress seems slow right now.
# space
At the end of the universe, black holes will be the only things left and they will define what happens in the cosmos for countless eons.
# 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.
# oddities
A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.
# tech
When you're promised eternal life as a hyper-intelligent machine, it's hard to not check out its confabs.
# science
A human DNA strand has 3 billion base pairs. Your cell nucleus is 0.1 cubic millimeter. How does your genome fit?
