The holidays are a time for family, which often means arguments with woo-loving relatives...

An awful lot is riding on JWST and there's a huge risk that if something goes wrong, deep space astronomy could be set back decades.

Cramming science into a fashion magazine didn't seem to work last year so naturally, GQ is going to try it again.

Releasing climate change modeling code to people who can't run it, don't understand it, and are paid to disagree with it and libel you a fraud doesn't do computer scientists any favors.

Hypothetically, science and technology should have fared better under the liberal Obama administration. In reality, very little has changed.

Humor can be the beast way to show the shortfalls of a pseudoscientific idea as shown by XKCD and Scenes From A Multiverse.

Often times, the loudest defenders of a belief aren't trying to convince you. They're trying to convince themselves.

Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.

Genetic studies confirm that the Black Death was a strain of the bubonic plague making its way through Europe with outbreaks in trade hubs.

Ragbir Bhathal responds to Weird Things to set the record straight: the story about his detection of laser signals from Gliese 581g are pure fiction.

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

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

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

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

Step one: paint all scientists as completely un-relatable weirdos. Step two: wonder why so few kids want to grow up to be scientists.