Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?

Amazingly, Harrington High School will not be prosecuted for spying on its students at home through school-issued laptops and creating child porn in the process...

Astronomer Ragbir Bhathal supposedly claims he received a signal from Gliese 581g, but the story behind the claims doesn't seem to make much sense.

It's awfully hard to come up with ways to combat global warming when politicians are harassing climatologists for daring to conduct their research and find proof that the planet is heating up.

The quest to create an accurate simulation of the brain continues. But what will be this project's most realistic outcome?

Ads for extrasolar attractions and preemptively naming cities on an alien world are all well and good. But what will it take to really start colonizing a distant planet?

According to the finest minds Templeton could assembly, science is for lazy chumps. Aesthetics and theology is where all the hard work really is.

Michael Anissimov has had it with transhumanists ready to hurry up and wait for technology to solve every problem humanity faces by merely existing.

Templeton fellows keep making grand speeches promising to connect faith and science and failing miserably.

Weird Things is now officially a toddler in human years and probably middle aged in blog ones...

A new experiment shows that we can give paralyzed patients the ability to move their wheelchairs with their thoughts alone.

You've probably never seen a meteor quite like this...

This is what happens when you're told you shouldn't read the comments but do it anyway.

Retired military officers claim that aliens are visiting Earth to discourage us from using nuclear weapons on each other. But how would aliens know if we have nukes?

According to four physicist time will keep going for billions of years until one day it will just... stop.