Science

An artist's concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA's Kepler space telescope. (NASA/W. Stenzel)

NASA finds 1,284 new planets

Kelly Cohen · May 10, 2016 6:24 pm

There is long-running debate about what sort of science the NSF should be spending money on. Scientists are broadly united in resisting congressional involvement except to dole out large dollops of taxpayers' money. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A $149,000 question not worth asking

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2016 4:01 am

"There's still a very strong contingent of people who are in denial about climate change," Nye said. (File Photo by John Davisson/Invision/AP)

Energy and Environment

Bill Nye puts GOP candidates in hot seat on climate change

Daniel Chaitin · April 23, 2016 2:38 am

The former governor of Alaska said Thursday, "He's a kids' show actor, he's not a scientist." (AP Photos)

Energy and Environment

Sarah Palin ‘as much of a scientist’ as Bill Nye the Science Guy

Anna Giaritelli · April 15, 2016 1:24 am

Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’: ‘I can see where’ you’d want to throw ‘climate deniers’ in jail

Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’: ‘I can see where’ you’d want to throw ‘climate deniers’ in jail

Red Alert Politics · April 14, 2016 7:47 pm

Despite the 2013 move to include the marital status of same-sex couples in the American Community Survey, neither of the two surveys ask individuals about their sexual orientation or gender identity. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Lawmakers push for census data on LGBT community

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2016 10:20 pm

Gene editing is one of those "dual use" technologies: It enables both novel approaches to basic biological research, and the literal redesign of life forms, ecosystems and even societies. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The perils of human gene editing for reproduction

Marcy Darnovsky · March 8, 2016 5:01 am

WHO reticent to confirm Zika-birth defect link

Robert King · March 5, 2016 12:01 am

Obama praises ‘Mythbusters’ team before series finale

Obama praises ‘Mythbusters’ team before series finale

Joshua Axelrod · March 4, 2016 8:24 pm

Professor Hengli Tang, right, is a lead author of a lab study that found the Zika virus infects embryonic cells that help form the brain, adding to evidence that Zika causes a serious birth defect. (FSU Photography Services/Florida State University via AP)

Scientists reach Zika breakthrough

Robert King · March 4, 2016 6:14 pm

What climate advocates avoid discussing is the fact that science is never settled. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Energy and Environment

So much for settled science

Bill O'keefe · February 25, 2016 5:02 am

The prognosis for replenishing the Adelie penguin population is bleak. (Jason Auch/Creative Commons image)

Energy and Environment

Scientists: Iceberg may have killed 150,000 Antarctic penguins

Joshua Axelrod · February 13, 2016 7:59 pm