A study of brain cancer patients in Italy shows the neural epicenters of spiritual experiences and religious belief.

An analysis of King Tutankhamun's DNA confirms he's the son of Akhenaten and brings the short, unpleasant history of his reign into focus.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider may have reached temperatures at which matter itself begins to melt, and found a peek at new insights into the future of computing.

After several years of sustained pushback, you'd think that creationists would find a new strategy. But they're nothing if not consistent and deaf to criticism...

DARPA's new moonshot experiment sounds like a recipe for invincible monsters straight out of a B horror movie.

After failing to fix science education, Chris Mooney is taking his failed approach to the vaccine manufactroversy.

Thankfully for us, the future Repo Men imagines is very unlikely to happen, which makes it difficult to take its parable seriously.

Not only can we continue scientific research and space exploration before we solve all the world's problems, we can't afford not to...

Sometimes we need to let entertainment stay entertainment instead of bending over backwards trying to turn it into an educational tool.

Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.

Pundits and commentators are still perplexed by Ken Ham and his temple of ignorance, and keep setting out on a snipe hunt for a deep, complicated reason why he created it.

When connecting the dots in archeology, you might end up with a discovery you think rewrites the history books. Emphasis on the "you think" part...

Driven by the need for clicks and eyeballs, media outlets are almost uniformly bad at reporting science stories without giving a platform to cranks and denialists.

If we ever ended up in the past, it's tempting to think our modern skills would make us rich and famous. But putting those skills to use centuries ago is trickier than it sounds...

WeCU Technologies thinks it can read the minds of would-be terrorists , and they want to test their approach at airports. Unfortunately, their approach is unlikely to work.