Texas is hell bent to use toxic partisanship instead of expert-vetted facts guide its education system, in denial that its students will suffer as a result.

Many religious zealots homeschool their kids to stop them from learning about evolution. And thanks to some homeschooling textbook publishers, they have a helping hand in denying their kids a scientific education.

According to a new paper, science blogs are a cesspool of toxic snark. Unfortunately for the paper, the criteria used to decide that were highly subjective and context-free.

Science fiction has been a vehicle for humanity exploring its deepest fears and highest aspirations. But to gatekeepers of the film world, sci-fi is always nothing more than pulpy shlock.

Oil is a finite resource, and if it runs out before we're ready, it will be a massive economic disaster, as a NatGeo doomsday scenario shows in grim detail.

Hedge fund manager James Altucher has a radical solution to college debt and degrees with little utility in the job market. Just don't go to college. But is that a realistic option?

According to David Scharfenberg, Ken Miller is the only sane, rational person in the debate about how evolution should be taught, a debate led almost exclusively by foaming-at-the-mouth irrational extremists on both sides.

Answers In Genesis says that the fall of Atlantis was caused by the Great Flood and they have the numbers and verses to prove it.

Not all supplements are bad for you, but not all of them are good or effective either. But we do have an idea which ones are better than others...

How to argue like a creationist in one easy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant step.

Defense contractors are trying to turn the internet into an arena for state-sponsored espionage of dubious efficacy and legality.

Mars isn't a hostile desert because its cold and has a barely-there atmosphere. It's because killer UV rays are constantly sterilizing its surface.

A group of religious zealots was ready to quite literally go to war with the unbelievers in Amarillo, Texas.

Famed physicist Roger Penrose and an Arizona doctor are claiming that our brains are quantum computer in a white paper that will surely be seized by the woo faithful as proof of "quantum consciousness."

It's rare you get to talk to a mastermind with plans to rule the world so it's hard not to jump at the chance to interview one.