Tensions between religion and science will persist unless believers recognise that skepticism is a hallmark of science

These bodies of water have been sealed off from the atmosphere for millions of years and so may contain life forms new to science.

The creature - called a supergiant - is a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long.

But these beasts, discovered in the Kermadec Trench, were more than 10 times bigger: the largest found measured in at 34cm.

The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.

Closely Watched Study Fails to Find Arsenic in Microbial DNA

A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States.

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Afterword from Lawrence Krauss' New Book
A Universe From Nothing

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.