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.

When it's getting harder and harder to make truly profound, world-changing discoveries, we have to double down on skepticism to make sure we don't lead ourselves astray.

PZ Myers declares space exploration and colonizing other words dead on arrival. Let me count the way's he's wrong about that...

Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.

Protons might be a little smaller than we thought, and that means we may need to rewrite a lot of the rules we thought we understood about the quantum world.

By neglecting their scientists and educations, politicians aren't saving money for their citizens, they're undermining their countries' future.

Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?

Peer review isn't perfect. But it's still our best hope for quality science and catching errors and frauds with a few small, but meaningful tweaks.

The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.

The military is running out of nerds and worries it doesn't have enough to develop and control its future high tech weapons. But the government isn't about to incentivize STEM students with anything other than PR...

According to biology pioneer J. Craig Venter, the first step to personalized medicine and new tools to fight cancer are faster computers.

Not all supplements are bad for you, but not all of them are good or effective either. But we do have an idea which ones are better than others...

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