If a number of people who vape marijuana report detrimental effects, is it fair for government and state agencies to sound the alarm about e-cigarettes, the device, rather than what's in it? …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine laid it on the table recently; to him, Pluto is a planet. News outlets are calling him out, saying the "official governing body" does not agree. The Paris-based…

Today I am back from the 8th edition of the ICNFP conference, which finished yesterday in Kolymbari (Crete). This event is very interesting because of its wide scope, bringing together physicists…

Over 200 children were sacrificed by the Chimu culture in Peru to try and appease the gods and stave off, you guessed it, climate change, according to a recent find.  Experts say the remain…

At the beginning of this decade, there were clear lines in science denial. If you denied evolution or global warming, you were more likely to vote Republican, and if you denied medical, agricultural…

Celebrities and environmentalist jetting off to exotic locations to talk about climate change, renewable energy, and organic food may make you feel like the modern world is killing the planet but a…

Claims that meat production are causing undue stress on the environment are highly exaggerated, as are the benefits of plant-based diets. Instead of being ground in evidence, the plant-based and…

Artifacts from an archaeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site located along the Salmon River, a tributary of the larger Columbia River basin in western Idaho, suggest that the original native…

Decades ago, before the Human Genome project, there was speculation there might be a gay gene. While some applauded the idea - sexuality wasn't a choice - others were concerned that future science…

Human land use due to manufacturing, population, and agriculture changing the shape of earth itself has been termed the Anthropocene Epoch, but if less hyperbolic scientists of the future agree…