# politics
Muslim hardliners are zealots are trying to break down the Saudi wall between religion and business. And this is bad news for its economy and Westerners visiting the country.
# space
On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.
# tech
Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.
# politics
Guns don't keep countries free, voters do if there are any, according to a study of virtually every country on Earth.
# science
An individual heat wave may not mean much. But we're not seeing the occasional heat wave, we're seeing a disturbing pattern of them.
# space
A simulated mission to Mars finds that one of the biggest potential threats to astronauts outside of radiation will be cabin fever.
# space
Extrasolar moons of gas giants may be the perfect worlds for life outside out solar system. And they should be even more common than planets.
# tech
The march of automation is imminent. How we plan for it is crucial for the future of the global economy.
# science
Amazingly, you can cool something to below absolute zero. And what happens when you do is really, really weird...
# tech
Study on the failures of telecommuting shows that many employers don't understand telecommuting and hence, neither do their workers.
# tech
Charles Seife wants his fusion reactor and he wants it now, dammit, or no funding for you.
# tech
Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.
# evolution
Creationism, now done in the best labs a stock photo license can buy.
# oddities
Weird Things survives two ends of the world, which should be some sort of record for a weird science blog.
# science
A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
