# astrobiology
People have been seeing weird, saucer-shaped objects in the sky half a century before the UFO craze took off in America.
# oddities
How passionate letters become books, and books become sacred texts.
# politics
A new space race may be on, and this one will have far more competitors aiming to go to the Moon and stay there longer than the others.
# astrobiology
If the Plains of Cydonia on Mars are an alien temple complex, who built it and why?
# science
Evolution in action: an obscure mutation may render some humans immune to AIDS.
# science
It's all fun and games until a mad scientists with a big enough lab makes a banana-duck...
# politics
We need to lift the ban on embryonic stem cell research if we want to help millions of people who suffer from complex degenerative diseases.
# science
When you use the word "plausible" when talking about movies, make sure it means what you think it means.
# education
Just how much should we be allowed to discuss creationism in science class? It depends who's discussing it and why.
# education
Creationism gains a foothold when teachers explain evolution badly. Let's change that.
# politics
Believe it or not, over the long term, political discourse is getting a lot less nasty on average.
# oddities
What if all those flying saucers weren't alien explorers, but a secret military program originally started by the Nazis?
# sex
Religious leaders are often obsessed with sex because nature might not have given them a choice in the matter.
# oddities
Brace yourself for a whole new level of personal artwork. The subject? What makes you, you.
