# astrobiology
The outer solar system isn't just toxic gas giants and ice. It's full of bizarre oceans with the promise of life and alien chemistry that we didn't think was possible even a few years ago.
# education
An accidental sneak peek at what kids are taught in a creationist science class shows a profound disregard for both the Bible and scientific facts.
# space
Whether we like it or not, military hardware is going to be in space. It's just a question of when and what.
# space
Creationists and theologians often call the Big Bang theory an origin story for atheists. But that comparison ignores the easily confirmed evidence that it more than likely happened.
# health
One of the anti-vaxxer's favorite cliches is that too many vaccines overwhelm growing immune systems. But that claim falls apart when we look at the contents of the vaccines themselves.
# science
When connecting the dots in archeology, you might end up with a discovery you think rewrites the history books. Emphasis on the "you think" part...
# health
Alt med practitioners decided that the one of world's simplest and most famous formulas is their friend because they clearly don't understand it.
# science
Driven by the need for clicks and eyeballs, media outlets are almost uniformly bad at reporting science stories without giving a platform to cranks and denialists.
# education
A profile of Don McLeroy makes it clear that the Texas Board of Education isn't interested in anything other than blasting students with simplistic, dogmatic propaganda.
# tech
China wants its citizens connected to the internet. Just not the kind of internet where their daily propaganda blitz could be questioned with the click of a mouse...
# space
The best way to find Earth-sized planets is watching them pass between a telescope and their parent star. And we might get a telescope designed to spot precisely that.
# tech
Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.
# politics
Economic theory and reality keep colliding as the Great Recession unfolds, and Wall Street keeps pretending that the theory is winning.
# space
Singularitarians think they figured out the perfect way to travel through space after they upload their minds to machines.
# science
If we ever ended up in the past, it's tempting to think our modern skills would make us rich and famous. But putting those skills to use centuries ago is trickier than it sounds...
