Politics

Chris Mooney's new book reviewing the science of denying science has turned into a mini-phenomenon. The author responds and clarifies here: A potentially simpler explanation for these results, then, is that the fact-checkers are simply doing their job...

NASA's Transhab concept, an inflatable space hab subsequently adopted by Bigelow Aerospace SpaceX has teamed up with space station developer Bigelow Aerospace to dramatically lower the cost of reaching and living in space. No aerospace company would ...

When last we heard from the Heartland Insitute, they were reeling from a leaked document revealing their duplicity and hypocrisy. The same jokers are back with a PR campaign comparing climate scientists to murderers and madmen, like bin Laden and the ...

This week, the space shuttle Enterprise made low altitude passes over D.C. and New York City on the way to its retirement on the deck of the USS Intrepid, and despite setbacks, America's love affair with space travel was on full display up and down th...

The dwarf planet Ceres, largest object in the main asteroid belt; one of millions of lucrative oases floating in space? Three zillionaires, an astronaut and a corp of dreamy engineers walked into a bar and decided to shoot waaaay beyond the moon: The...

The Utopian Plain on Mars as seen by the Viking 2 lander in 1976. Scientists believes this image represents the true colors of the aptly name Red Planet. Credit 1976 NASA/JPL If recent cuts to planetary science weren't drawing blood before, they are ...

The most cuddly basal T. rex ever, with feathers! We all know that humans could not possibly change the climate, that this was in fact decreed by Republican Yaweh—except possibly when we're cooling it, as that gets a special-pleading magic pass. We...

A new study measures the rejection of science by political party. You'd think findings would surprise no one. But science writer Chris Mooney takes a closer look at the results and finds you might still be shocked: Gauchat further validates the argume...

A huge, lingering ridge of high pressure over the eastern half of the United States brought summer-like temperatures to North America in March 2012. Image courtesy NASA/EO, click for my comments. A spring heat wave shattered records across the US and...

A huge, lingering ridge of high pressure over the eastern half of the United States brought summer-like temperatures to North America in March 2012. Image courtesy NASA/EO, click for my comments. A spring heat wave shattered records across the US and...