Politics

Phil Plait takes down Gingrich's moonbase pander and Rick Tumlinson provides a more nuance look at HuffPo which includes this snippet: Obama did take action first though, and interestingly, Newt Gingrich and Robert Walker actually came out in support ...

Baron Newton Von Gingrich, Master of Sociopaths, Head of House Harkonnen, last known homeworld Callista III. Image courtesy of DemFromCT Our good friends at the National Center for Science Education are branching out to confront misinformation on cli...

Planets everywhere: Illustration courtesy of the ESO Even in the most modern, mass produced storage media, it normally takes near a million atoms to store one bit of information. Big Blue hopes to reduce that a tad: Now, researchers at IBM have teame...

HIV I haven't written much about HIV/AIDS denialism. It's pseudo-science through and through, as lousy and underhanded as creationists are with the evidence for evolution or climate change deniars are with thermometer readings. They are sometimes all...

No doubt lots of good happened to some folks this year, but overall 2011 kind of sucked in my book. Here's just some of what could happen in 2012 to make it a much, much better year for all: The first completely earth-sized planet will be found orbiti...

This week rumors swirled that ... something ... was found in the LHC data. There's plenty of inside baseball players saying it's likely to be tentative evidence that the search for the Higgs Boson is nearing a phase transition. So, what is the Higgs B...

Who you gonna believe? Millions of thermometer readings compiled by NASA over decades or Tricky Rick's Perrytales? Alas, a favorite climate change denial trope is on its deathbed. Specifically, the claim that modern polar ice sheets formed during a p...

Hubble Deep Field View courtesy of NASA/JPL So why do we hard-headed, skeptical, science-y and atheist types have the nerve to celebrate holidays with religious overtones? Well, for one thing you don't have to believe in witches and flying broomstick...

FX dinos on ice are hilarious and cute. But on the distant ice-rink world of Europa, scientists are pouring over images and finding the Jovian moon is swaddled in frozen over oceans that breathe, at least a little, and that's one of the things I wrote...

We all had a good chuckle when Rick Perry couldn't spout his own bullshit to a friendly crowd of know-nothings. But think about the department that slipped Perry's tongue, the one he's drooling to shut down, the Department of Energy headed by Nobel La...