An Italian mathematician is trying to replace dark matter observation by playing with models of gravitational measurements.

The Arab Spring is not turning the Middle East into a hotbed of secularism. But given the history and demographics of the region, it would be strange to expect it to.

PROTECT IP and SOPA aren't just threatening to gut the internet under the guise of fighting piracy, they're giving cranks and quacks a powerful new weapon ripe for abuse against their critics.

Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.

Kepler-22b is now of the our best candidates for extraterrestrial life. But there are a lot of questions left to answer about this planet.

Even a cursory glance at post-modernism shows that it's basically just trendy nonsense. Emphasis on nonsense.

Intelligent Design was a compromise no one wanted and the wrong answer to a question no one even asked.

In computer science, a PhD offers fewer jobs for slightly more money and fewer opportunities for growth.

The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.

No, computers didn't predict the Arab Spring. Their vague outputs are just being sold as predictions after the fact.

Muslim fundamentalists want all those harlots to cover up their sexy, sexy eyes, lest they're tempted to sin at the sight of an exposed iris.

Zero point energy is a favorite term for sci-fi writers and physics cranks. But while they think it means free energy from nothing, it's actually just a quantum state.

Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.

An experiment has detected neutrinos moving slightly faster than the speed of light and the scientists can't believe their results.

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