# science
Quantum time travel experiments hint that physics creates closed time loops, meaning you can't change history.
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# science
The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
# health
National healthcare systems are getting sick and tired of paying for expensive placebos.
# education
As more Americans are rethinking the value of a college education, some humanities scholars are advocating not just more college, but the least employable majors possible.
# science
In response to a lengthy presentation debunking his claims, Christopher Monckton did the only thing he knows how to do: throw a massive tantrum.
# tech
Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.
# science
Things are not looking good for ScienceBlogs as the aftermath of the Sodageddon propels more of its writers to escape velocity...
# space
If we return to the Moon and decide to stay there, the Moon may offer us a few shortcuts in setting up a safe place to live.
# health
Soda taxes can curb consumption of sugary drinks, but their benefits are vastly oversold and the problems we're facing need a more holistic approach.
# space
A new paper concludes that black holes are periodically giving birth to new universes. How it arrives at that conclusion raises a lot of questions.
# space
Young Earth astrophysicist Jason Lisle is ready to publish a paper with evidence of light traveling faster than science says it does. Well, depending on what you mean by "publish" and "evidence" that is...
# oddities
Someone should tell Reverend Robert Barro that "believe what I say or God will smite you" is not a logical or morally upstanding argument in favor of one's religion.
# science
Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.
# science
At what point do considering the limits of our knowledge and different ways of understanding turn into pointless navel-gazing?
