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Secular Britain is ruled by religious bureaucrats.

Why 2012 was the best year ever.

On trusting intuition versus analysis.

Leaked IPCC climate report says that anthropogenic climate change now as certain as anything gets in science.

A spider that builds its own arachnid decoys is discovered.

A new Pew Research study finds that 1 in 6 persons follows no religion.

Psychology reveals the comfort people derive from beliefs about a coming apocalypse.

Alonzo Fyfe continues on with his series on the relationship between God and morality.

Habitable planet discovered 12 light years from Earth. Maybe two.

Did President Obama alienate atheists with his speech at Newtown Connecticut?

The most fascinating human evolution discoveries of 2012.

Politicians must not elevate mere opinion over science.

The top scientific discoveries of 2012.

The where of what: how brains represent objects.

2012's failed psychic predictions.

On dinosaur body sizes. Where are all the little dinosaurs?

Reported by the media this week is a paper that purports to show the the evolution of the human hand was driven by fighting. But there are problems with this conclusion.

Considering the trash we've left on the Moon.

A new study may show that ape cultural traditions aren't that different from our own.

New Orleans schools ban creationism and revisionist history.

Has science replaced philosophy?

This is pretty hilarious. A respresentative from the Discovery Institute was featured in a video describing Intelligent Design where she appears to be in a biology lab. Click the link to find out what the "lab" actually consists of.

A new Gallup survey shows that Americans now favor inheritance and adoption rights for gays and lesbians.

How communities shape our morals.

Paralyzed woman controls a robotic arm with her mind.

"I only know what I hear on FOX News...", says an arsonist who set fire to a mosque when asked by the judge if he even knew any Muslims. 

How life emerged from deep-sea rocks.

Here's the science of the real end of the world.

American Atheists is suing the IRS because of its preferential treatment to religious groups.

Advancements in fetal medicine are bringing up some ethical issues.

You probably learned that every one of your cells has the same genetic code as all the others. The truth, however, is that we're all mosaics.

What does randomness look like?

Did the Church of Scientology poison this man's dog?

Religious belief and religious involvement have an opposite effect on the support for democracy.