No, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, aren't microwave noodles of impatient astronomers. They're a very real phenomenon the media just can't seem to get right.

Curtis White fancies himself a man of deep thought and keep insight. His "nuh-uh" take on Dawkins' The God Delusion shows otherwise.

Raymond Tallis has a list of scathing criticisms aimed at physics and neurology. It would sure help his points if he knew what he was talking about...

Too many studies about sex and psychology use convenience samples of college students. At the same time, too many writers criticize those studies for the wrong reasons.

For an instant spacesuit, just add plasma or electrons. But don't stay in it for too long...

If Darwin never published his treatise, we'd still have a theory of evolution almost identical to the one we have today thanks to his contemporaries.

Massive volcanic eruptions leave their mark on the climate record we can gleam from tree rings. And some scientists have new ideas for how to best track them...

Amazingly, you can cool something to below absolute zero. And what happens when you do is really, really weird...

Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.

Andrea Rossi is still keeping up his cold fusion scam and taking a community of fervent believers for a ride in the process.

Far too many denizens of social media are upset that Curiosity cost $2.5 billion because they don't understand how and why that money was spent.

Two afflictions shared by a majority of the public are dragging down our advancements as a civilization and a species.

Having the public vote on what science gets funded and why to fix the issues with how grants are given out is an idea only a politician could love and would be disastrous in practice.

The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.

OPERA experiment's lead investigator resigned after a scathing rebuke from his fellow scientists over the neutrino detection incident. He should've been allowed to stay.