Experts are clear about how seedless watermelons are produced, but some disagreement arises when considering how to categorize the genetic mules. Is a seedless watermelon a?GMO, a hybrid, or something else altogether? There?is some?disagreement on...
When BuzzFeed journalist Matt Stopera went to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY for the Bill Nye?Ken Ham debate, he learned a lot of really crazy stuff that creationists make up about creationism and evolution....
Oh, these sea bunnies are just too cute, and the people in Japan are going nuts over them. I notice that Japanese crazes tend to jump over the Pacific and take up residence here in...
Currently, one in five species on Earth faces extinction. According to the Biological Extinction Conference held at the Vatican last week, that percentage will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless we take immediate urgent action...
From Wikipedia:
Neil deGrasse Tyson born October 5, 1958) is an Americanastrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetariumat theRose Center for Earth and Space and a...
As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, focus is naturally on the number of infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, especially as scientists closely watch the omicron "close cousin" subvariant, BA.2.
While infection and mortality rates...
According to MLive.com, the CDC has now found the first genetic link to the Legionnaires' outbreak and the Flint, MI water system. Far from a cause of celebration, however, the discovery leads to thorny questions about...
Earlier this summer, creationist Ken Ham opened the massive waste of lumber known as the Ark Encounter.
The Ken Ham creation located in Williamstown, Kentucky, claims to be a life sized re-creation of Noah's ark from...
The death penalty has always been a source of great debate in America, and that debate is about get more intense. According to CNN, Arkansas plans to execute eight men over the course of 10...
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Barack Obama said he believes marijuana use should be treated as a public health issue:
"I do believe that treating this as a public-health issue, the same way we...
"You say you want a revolution?"
Well, it might not be far off.
That is according to a study published in Nature tracing characteristics of history's most consequential revolutions.
Using a rubric called the Gini coefficient, scientists from Washington State University and...
Norma McCorvey died of heart failure today in Katy, Texas. She was 69. Her grave will undoubtedly be marked with that humble, unassuming name – Norma. Generations from now, women will walk past her without...
Bobby Azarian, a neuroscientist, wrote this article for Raw Story. He was offended that we covered his excellent content and did not credit him or Raw Story. An honest mistake on our part, as we...
Conservatives hate science, especially when it refuses to confirm their biases on issues they would rather not talk about in the first place.
That dynamic was in evidence Monday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show....
We've all done battle with the infamous basement-dwelling keyboard warriors on the internet. Many of us have had real life encounters with unbelievably stupid idiots that you just know finished watching Alex Jones and went...
This piece was originally a section in another article on which I'm currently working. But there was so much information that I felt it began to take over the entire original article, and I made...
By definition, criminal law is the legislation of a state or country dealing with criminal offenses and their punishments.?Over a dozen states have decriminalized marijuana with both Colorado and Washington state making it entirely legal.?There...
With California facing one of the worst droughts in its history, Governor Jerry Brown (D) had to declare a state of emergency back in January. Since then, the state has had to deal with multiple...
Ken Ham, idiot creationist extraordinaire, opened a $100 million Noah's Ark attraction in Louisville, Kentucky. A group of atheists is now planning to protest at this opening.
One of the most aggravating parts is that this...
During his debate last night with the Creation Museum president, Ken Ham, science educator Bill Nye made a simple yet profound response to an audience member's question. His answer: "I don't know."
The question was how...
