# tech
When the courts encounter computer science and chemistry, the end result isn't sophisticated regulation but utter confusion as judges and lawyers try to figure out what's legal, what's not, and what should be.
# space
Mars One might be imploding under its own hype but that doesn't mean we can't learn from its ability to tap into people's desire to explore.
# politics
Skeptical groups and bloggers seem to have split into two camps. One wants to teach and promote science. The other has very different priorities.
# science
Of all the things you could get transplanted, your head should not make the list. The risks are far too great and better methods are on the horizon.
# sex
We could have better, safer, more effective condoms. Unfortunately, the FDA has wrapped the process of getting new designs approved in red tape.
# science
The future of meat isn't exactly not meat, at least not yet. But there is one way we could convince at least some people to start eating meat that doesn't come from an animal...
# astrobiology
In its quest or clicks, the media turned a single footnote in a paper on a sequence of fast radio bursts into proof that scientists found the second coming of the Wow! Signal.
# science
New designs for potential single stage to orbit space planes won't replace rockets. But they could handle crews while the rockets handle cargo.
# space
Robotics researcher Srikanth Saripalli advances a bizarre argument against human spaceflight and in favor of sending a robots we haven't invented yet to distant worlds.
# space
Astronauts will go stir crazy and get cabin fever on interplanetary missions. And it will have to be every mission planner's job to keep them sane and entertained.
# tech
Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.
# politics
Organized skepticism is all dressed up, but seems to have nowhere to go and isn't very interested in looking for new places it might want to visit.
# space
If we're going to have astronauts working and living in space for years at a time, cramming them in tight, fixed spaces without artificial gravity is doing them, and us, a major disservice.
# tech
The American healthcare system today is a mess of paperwork and confusion. More data and smarter, fact-based decision making could improve its highly mixed outcomes.
# science
A longform article on GMOs in Elle demonstrates why you really shouldn't be getting your scientific advice from fashion magazines.
