# politics
Peak Oil is a popular idea, but we're nowhere close to reaching it.
# science
Don't worry, the supervolcano under Yellowstone isn't going to kill us. Yet.
# science
The Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin assumes his favorite position: on the fainting couch.
# space
The race is on to turn spaceflight into an affordable adventure.
# science
Try as we might, we often don't understand randomness in nature and how it works.
# oddities
While most of us dread doomsday and worry about whether the world will end, some people can't wait for the apocalypse.
# space
If you're worried about 2012, don't be. Now, 2036, that's another matter...
# tech
Researchers are really struggling to show that cell phones cause cancer despite the public's belief otherwise.
# oddities
Separating the scant facts from the copious fiction about Jesus of Nazareth.
# evolution
Creationists deliberately don't understand transitional fossils. But to be fair, the whole concept is somewhat flawed...
# oddities
Ancient alien claims often rely on a single flawed assumption: that our ancestors couldn't be engineers and scientist in their own right.