Politics

A stellar shockwave produced by a celestial bullet called Zeta Ophiuchi. Image courtesy NASA/WISE The image above is just the ribbon on the gift NASA researchers assembled and left under our collective tree this week. The WISE telescope produced a mi...

The "Himalaya Water Tower" wins first prize in eVolo's 2012 skyscraper concept contest. Click image for description and more winning submissions. Ignore any pesky data compiled by NASA of global temperature readings streaking skyward like inverted li...

Sign the petition for Pluto's encounter with New Horizons to be honored with a new stamp From the scientific vantage of medicine to the politics of abortion, low cost accessible contraception makes sense all the way around. Healthier women with more m...

I don't get thousands in payoffs from industry think-tanks. But this week an artist friend built me this beautiful Kos-orange coffee table with a cool signature underneath! Remember a few years ago when conservatives were giddy over stolen documents...

Santorum's NASA conspiracy incarnate. Who ya gonna believe? Mitt Romney may have accepted the role humans are playing in global warming—before he was against it. But Tricky Rick Santorum has been priming the misinformation and character assassinati...

Super continents come and go. And when they come, geologists reason the individual pieces either keep flying apart until they collide and form a new super continent on the other side of the world, or they fall back together and form near the same spot...

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...