When reporters already know what story they're going to write, your research becomes nothing more than bastardized fodder.

They Might Be Giants have a short message about science.

According to some environmentalists, the worst part of war is the carbon footprint.

If time travel is possible, what direction would be the easiest to visit and have the fewest limitations?

If we're expecting tourists to visit the Moon, should we figure out how to protect Apollo landing sites from souvenir hunters and historical artifact collectors?

Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.

Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.

Respectful debates help us learn and improve the public discourse. But there's a catch. Those debates can't be so respectful that they refuse to call out abject nonsense.

We can't see a black hole directly, even a supermassive one. But we can see where they are by tracking the orbits of the objects around them...

According to Blaise Pascal, believers have nothing to lose from putting their faith into a deity that might not exist while atheists shoulder all the risk. But what if Pascal missed what it means to be a believer?

Finally, there's a skeptical expert voice addressing the panic about our potential AI overlords.

Parents were shocked by the offensive content on the t-shirts worn by the Smith-Cotton High School marching band: a reference to evolution.

A premiere pediatric hospital is being awfully friendly to anti-vaccine and homeopathic cranks and quacks.

The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...

Just because the appendix is a vestigial organ doesn't mean it can't perform a minor beneficial function every once in a while.