The problem with wealth inequality isn't that it exists, it's how easily the 1% are running up the score and how angry they are that they're not being uniformly worshipped.

If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.

A study tracking the benefits of standing desks shows no difference in health outcomes between sitting and standing at the office.

An alien civilization's megaproject is very unlikely to be responsible for the weird signals from a strange star. But we can't entirely rule it out...

A new study showing that your through patterns are unique enough to be seen on a brain scan is being misinterpreted as a test run of an IQ detector.

A study of conspiracy theorists shows that conspiratorial ideation is actually a political, not a logical matter.

We finally know why elephants are more resistant to cancers than humans. Can we use the same strategy they do?

A plan to save the planet by letting half of it revert to a wilderness may not be as unrealistic as it seems at first blush.

According to pictures from New Horizon, in the darkest, deepest reaches of our solar system, you could stand on the summit of a mountain covered by exotic ices and look up at hazy blue skies.

The trajectory of American higher education is simply unsustainable and something has to give sooner rather than later.

Anti-vaccine activists funded the most complete and thorough study of vaccine safety done to their exact specifications. Now they're livid because it found nothing even remotely concerning.

AAU's survey of inappropriate sexual behavior did not go smoothly and its results raise a lot of questions about both their methodology and college culture.

Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.

Tracking what's happening inside a biological system on a computer is not the same thing as recreating that system.

Alex Jones and his fan club are apparently convinced that the drought in California is a sinister New World Order experiment.