There's been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated. Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China? Was it transmitted to humans from a...
Science is an amazing discipline. At its core, it's just a bunch of people being curious about stuff. The invention of the microscope helped scientists to be able to look more closely at the stuff...
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...
psychotropic drugs
A team of scientists from both the University College of London and Oxford University recently published an eye-opening experiment in?Current Biology.? The team found that psychotropic drugs, such as the SSRI citalopram and the dopamine-enhancer levodopa,...
Senator Ted Cruz, bless his heart, tries so darn hard to pretend he's an intellectual and knows everything there is to know on every subject imaginable. But then he starts speaking and it soon becomes...
Brainy Teen Found One Of The Largest Lost Mayan Cities
William Gadoury is a 15-year-old Mayan studies enthusiast from Quebec, who recently made headlines worldwide for discovering one of the largest forgotten Mayan cities buried deep in the jungles of Belize. He's not an explorer and...
science class
Sometimes teachers make some stupid mistakes and show or teach inappropriate things to their students. This teacher in Texas went too far. She showed the Christian stereotype-laden God's Not Dead and the anti-Evolution film, Expelled: Intelligence Not Allowed.  The...
Ken Ham
Young earth creationism mouthpiece Ken Ham takes his mythology seriously. That is beyond question. The man built a “museum” dedicated to his belief that certain Hebrew myths are literally true. He built a massive boat to...
Politically active groups have always sought out, and even paid scientists, to support their agendas. Scientists grapple with the ethical ramifications of research funding. Only truth and fact are useful but no one pays or...
Latest Image of Pluto
// // Pluto is 3 billion miles away. It's?cold, dark, and mysterious. Pluto is about to get less mysterious?as we are illuminated with knowledge in?the next two days. If you haven't been paying attention, NASA...
I don't consider myself a particularly squeamish person. I'm a mom, after all. Not much I haven't seen! But as a teenage nurse's aide another lifetime ago, I passed out while watching a breast tumor...
I am a huge fan of the facebook page "I Fucking Love Science," and follow them there. I receive notifications and whatnot from the page and then I go and check out what has been...
Anyone who thinks Ben Carson is a viable alternative to Donald Trump should consider how uninformed he is on science and history. Well, Buzzfeed recently found an example of how uninformed the good doctor is....
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Fox News channel recently had a guest with some interesting things to say with an attack on Neil deGrasse Tyson when on an episode of Greg Gutfeld's?Red Eye.?The guest, Gavin McInnes, was a co-founder...
  One of the biggest stories of the newly christened Trump administration was that mere hours after being sworn in, President Donald Trump’s team purged the White House web page of all references to healthcare, civil...
Last week, we witnessed another example of President Donald Trump effacing his predecessor's legacy under the guise of eliminating "job-killing regulations." In what Trump hailed as a "new energy revolution that celebrates American production on American soil," the...
Wind power is a very promising resource for alternate forms of energy. The turbines at a wind farm spin when the wind hits them,and that turns an internal shaft in the turbine. The turbines are...
The Trump administration is set to enact dramatic cuts to yet another federal science agency, according to a report by the Washington Post. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) could see 17 percent of its...
phsychology
A study performed by the University of Alabama (UA) says that conservatives are less likely to be interested in new scientific data. Dr. Alexa Tullett, an assistant professor of psychology at UA, authored a project called...
Airport airplane
A very amazing event occurred this week. South Africa has opened the first entirely solar powered airport, George Airport, which serves over 600,000 passengers daily. It is the first for the continent. According to ConstructionReviewOnline,...