It makes sense for an alien species not to care about wiping out a civilization on another planet. Question is whether it would be worth the hassle.

Ancient astronaut proponents can't seem to distinguish between the terms plausible and likely.

Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.

Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.

Christina fundamentalists may want to ban evolution from schools, but Muslim fundamentalists want to kill anyone who teaches it.

Michio Kaku is an expert in theoretical physics. This is why it's not surprising that he's reciting for sci-fi cliches about evolution instead of the actual science.

Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.

Quests for meaning don't fit into peer-reviewed science. That doesn't stop some from trying anyway.

Evolutionary psychology sounds like a fruitful pursuit, but it's probably barking up the wrong tree as a discipline.

Argument from a persecution complex is not a persuasive way to defend creationism. Or anything, for that matter...

The man who spent his career dismissing evolution as a faith which scientists were bullied into following is now being threatened by his bosses for disagreeing with young Earth creationism.

Far too many commentators are way too eager to explain to scientists and science writers why creationism is still a thing. It would be nice if their explanations were actually rooted in the real world.

We think Gliese 581g might have liquid water on its surface. How do we check if it really does?

The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.

While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.