How much are we actually willing to pay for future innovations in science and technology? And not in a figurative way...

Publishing code used in scientific studies sounds like a good idea, but its implementation and consequences need a lot more thought first...

As aspiring AI designer picks a very passionate fight with a way of thinking about AI that's been dead for three decades.

The infamous NASA-backed paper claiming that exotic biochemistry was found on Earth gets eviscerated in the latest round in reviews.

Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.

Science doesn't move at the speed of headlines. It moves at whatever speed scientists can discover and confirm something new.

For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.

A computer just made a genuine scientific discovery. But it's creators are somewhat overselling it when they imply that it's an entity with a scientific mind.

Two Italians claim they cracked cold fusion and are ready to build a small power plant for paying customers. Their proof, however, points to this being an obvious scam.

Politicians want to cut scientific research and education programs, ignoring how little they'd actually be cutting and how many people it will truly affect.

Is becoming a scientist really worth it today? Surprisingly, a lot of PhDs are recommending against it.

It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.

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.

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