Science

The latest gender scandal comes from Google, where now-former employee James Damore wrote his infamous 10-page memo on the company's diversity policy. The memo itself is not scandalous, but you wouldn't know that from the media coverage or online outrage in response. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Beltway Confidential

Google it: men and women are different, and that’s okay

Hadley Heath Manning - contributor · August 9, 2017 8:06 pm

Is solar energy now suddenly affordable and reliable despite its checkered history? Up until now, it has not been able to stand on its own two feet without substantial subsidies. The authors of a two-year, taxpayer-funded study acknowledge that the answer to that question is: not quite. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Cronyism ruled Obama’s Energy Department

Kevin Mooney · August 9, 2017 7:37 pm

"It's very disappointing, yet entirely predictable to learn the New York Times would write off a draft report without first verifying its contents with the White House or any of the federal agencies directly involved with climate and environmental policy," said Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, in a statement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

White House attacks New York Times for publishing draft government report on climate change

Josh Siegel · August 8, 2017 9:52 pm

Perhaps the most common response people offer to stories about political correctness and censorship on college campuses is, "Can you imagine what will happen when these students enter the workforce?" With the Google memo, we no longer have to imagine that scenario. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

The reaction to the Google memo should worry us much more than the actual memo

Emily Jashinsky · August 8, 2017 5:29 pm

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy on Tuesday demanded an explanation about why the National Cancer Institute failed to publish evidence that a widely used herbicide does not cause cancer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trey Gowdy demands answers on why pro-industry cancer research was buried

Todd Shepherd · August 8, 2017 2:00 pm

Moderate and heavy drinkers are more likely to reach 85 without developing dementia or other cognitive impairment, according to a new study from the University of California, San Diego. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Moderate and heavy drinkers more likely to make it to 85 without dementia: Study

Sean Langille · August 3, 2017 5:39 pm

Fictive Science

The Scrapbook · August 3, 2017 9:05 am

"You know, weathermen can't even tell what the weather is going to be later today." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Energy and Environment

Anderson Cooper throws shade at local weathermen during Al Gore town hall

Daniel Chaitin · August 2, 2017 1:54 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is targeting a rule that expanded the EPA's jurisdiction over waterways to include ditches and watering holes, making a wider range of stakeholders, from farmers to natural gas drillers, subject to the agency's authority. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Energy and Environment

Scott Pruitt cleared of environmental group’s ‘climate denier’ charges

John Siciliano · August 1, 2017 9:47 pm

The Sierra Club tried censoring Scott Pruitt after the EPA administrator said in March that carbon dioxide is not creating climate change. It didn't go well. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

EPA scientific integrity office clears Scott Pruitt’s global warming comments, tells Sierra Club to pound sand

Philip Wegmann · August 1, 2017 5:57 pm

Groundbreaking new research via a tool called CRISPR has allowed scientists to edit the DNA of viable human embryos in order to attempt to correct faulty or disease-causing genes. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Beltway Confidential

Should scientists, on the verge of designer babies, edit human embryos?

Nicole Russell · August 1, 2017 5:38 pm

Fictive Science

The Scrapbook · July 28, 2017 7:00 am