# education
Texas' new potential chair of the Board of Education will make you long for the good old days of anti-evolution dentist Don McLeroy.
# science
The heavier your atoms are, they faster they decay. But why? There's a reason why the more protons you add to a nucleus, the harder it is to keep the atom together.
# science
Humans are reaching the limits of biological evolution according to the opinion of pop sci enthusiasts playing with some bizarre technobabble and numerology.
# health
Mitchell and Webb show us what a homeopathic ER would actually look like in practice.
# sex
A small setback like being wrong about literally everything is not going to stop abstinence-only zealots from attacking sex ed.
# space
Astronomers are trying to zero in on the largest mass for a stellar black hole and found a monster larger and hungrier than they expected.
# science
What do we mean by breaking the laws of physics? And what happens if we do?
# science
A group of communicators have a new idea for dealing with religious zealots on a warpath against science education: shirk from the challenge.
# space
Asteroid mining is touted as the industry of the future. But how ready are we to harvest raw materials from the asteroid belt at a profit?
# science
Scientists around the world are competing to answer the question of how heavy an atom can be before physics steps in.
# health
When we reject centuries of medical science and research, we're effectively going back and time to make ailments we tamed into life-threatening afflictions once again.
# health
Depression is a serious affliction, but we also need to prevent turning normal human emotions into pathologies.
# tech
Step one, live for a while. Step two, something. Step three, something else that should do the trick.
# science
Remember, you debate about quantum physics at your own risk.
# science
All too often people confuse a debate out of pity or common courtesy for equal standing. And all too often, cranks are happy to take advantage of that perception.