# science
It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.
# science
The Framer-in-Chief is failing upwards to speak for America's geoscientists. It should be a wake up call for scientists to speak for themselves instead.
# astrobiology
Is oxygen in the air a necessity for an alien civilization to develop?
# space
If wormholes big enough for spaceships to traverse exist, we should be able to detect them just by looking at the sky.
# oddities
Some things will always be a mystery, no matter how much you try to solve them.
# astrobiology
NASA claimed one of its researchers found alien biochemistry on Earth. Unfortunately, the paper they published doesn't support the hype.
# politics
WikiLeaks decides to give the world a peek at its books. Well, sort of. A few of them. And only kind of.
# science
A group of anthropologists crossed from being respectful to non-Western cultures and their history to being patronizing and condescending.
# evolution
Argument from a persecution complex is not a persuasive way to defend creationism. Or anything, for that matter...
# politics
It seems amazing how many people seem shocked and befuddled that governments viciously compete with one another on the world stage.
# space
Could we use neutron stars as navigational landmarks when traveling through interstellar space?
# science
A brief survey of the six kinds of people actively ruining science for the rest of us.
# space
Lawmakers are now openly telling NASA exactly what rocket to build, what engines to use, and from what companies to buy them.
# evolution
The man who spent his career dismissing evolution as a faith which scientists were bullied into following is now being threatened by his bosses for disagreeing with young Earth creationism.
# science
The holidays are a time for family, which often means arguments with woo-loving relatives...