Take five minutes of your time to say that yes, cancer patients, researchers, high school students and people around the country should be able to find out what their taxes already paid for.

Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA.

A debate between Chris Stedman, PZ Myers, and Leslie Cannold from April 15, 2012.

The Moral Necessity of a Godless Existence

Losing Faith: an Interview with Peter Boghossian and Matt Thornton

Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday problems of real life. As an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he tries to figure out why 1 in 3 Americans are obese.

Whatever else the Bible might be – and it really is a great work of literature – it is not a moral book and young people need to learn that important fact because they are very frequently told the opposite.

"In the long run, I would still be more concerned about the impact of climate change, but this work shows that even if we stabilise the climate, we might still get sea level rise due to how we use water."

An "annular eclipse" will be visible from a 240 to 300km-wide swathe of Earth stretching from Asia across the Pacific to the western US on Monday.

Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere.

Live Slow, Die Old
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.

Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms
- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. In a paper published in the journal Nature, they describe a class of enzymes known as peroxiredoxins which are present in almost all plants and other organisms and which appear to serve as a basic ingredient in non-feedback loop biological clocks.

Sean Faircloth in California - May 18, 19, 20 - Sacramento, Berkley, San Francisco

An update by the author of "A Universe from Nothing" on his thoughts, as a theoretical physicist, about the value of the discipline of philosophy

Conversion on Mount Improbable: How Evolution Challenges Christian Dogma

[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
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Do Atheists Understand and Appreciate Black Bodies?

Locked Out: How the Church Responded to their Pastor’s Coming Out