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Human-Neandertal Mating Gets a New Date
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least...
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Ancient Empires Produced Significant Greenhouse Gasses
An analysis of Greenland ice core samples indicates significant global methane emissions per capita during the Roman Empire and...
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With Limited Budgets, Pursuing Science Smartly
President Obama and his challenger, Mitt Romney, each responded at length to a question posed by ScienceDebate 2012 about...
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How Science Explains America’s Great Moral Divide
Researcher Jonathan Haidt delves into the psychology of red-state, blue-state, and offers hope for reconciliation
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Mayas Prophesized, but Not End of World
As the clock winds down to December 21, experts on the Mayan calendar have been racing to convince people...
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The Perils of Populist Science
We could wring our hands about our unreconstructed nature but sex is at the center of human thought, and...
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Scientists Not Immune From Gender Bias
Hypothesis: Scientists have a superior ability to root out gender bias in their labs because they are trained to...
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Ancient Statue Discovered By Nazis Is Made From Meteorite
An ancient Buddhist statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a...
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Climate Bias at Fox, WSJ ‘Far Exceeded’ Rest of Media
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published a study criticizing Fox News Channel and the Wall Street...
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We Need More STEM Grads, and We Need Them Now
Nearly 1.5 million computing jobs will become available over the next five years. The problem is, even in this...