Pastors and theologians worried about religion becoming a business are a few millennia too late to voice their concern.

America's culture is smothering its scientists and their innovations under a cloud of apathy and contempt.

Humanity is growing in number and we're starting to strain the planet and ourselves.

Peak Oil is a popular idea, but we're nowhere close to reaching it.

Technically, no one owns or can lay claim to the Moon. But if we start routinely staying on its surface, the law may need to change.

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the myth of communism leading to atheism persists.

AIDS is a terrible disease afflicting tens of millions of people. So why are some experts upset that fighting its spread is getting so much attention and funding?

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.

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.

Believe it or not, over the long term, political discourse is getting a lot less nasty on average.

There's a very good reason why religion should have no say in government: the government won't be able to say no.

How junk science led to the one of the darkest chapters of human history.