Tim Minchin's famous beat poem about a woo-ey dinner guest is getting made into a short film.

The Tau Zero Foundation has a radical plan for exploring interstellar space with an extreme spaceship. Problem is, it might not be radical enough.

California declined federal funds to teach abstinence-only sex ed. The result? Teen pregnancies are down to their lowest level ever.

Engineers are using evolutionary algorithms to design new ion engines for spacecraft.

John Horgan is on the warpath against Craig Venter because... the media prominently covered Venter's latest breakthrough with synthetic life?

A study of how proteins are encoded and translated across a dozen species shows that life on Earth had only one population of universal common ancestors.

We still have no idea how quantum entanglement works, but we know it's much, much faster than the speed of light...

Both brains and microchips try to find the most efficient way to conduct electrical signals. And that has a profound effect on how brains grow and evolve.

The modern world needs blasphemy not just as abstract right, but being actively exercised when the occasion calls for it.

Wakefield may have lost his medical license and is no longer able to call himself a doctor, but his damage to public health has been done and will continue.

Would aliens actually want to build a Dyson Sphere? It wouldn't be out of reach for them, but they might get a lot less power out of it, with a lot less utility than it seems at first glance...

Michael Fitzpatrick's bold new idea for combatting denialism and attacks on scientific fact: pretend denialists always argue in good faith and don't call them out on their denialism.

The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.

Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...

When it comes to science denial and illiteracy, the media is one of the biggest source of bad information and misleading opinions.