Dan Rather: In the age of Trump, ‘we must stand up for science now more than ever’

In an op-ed for Scientific American, veteran journalist and news anchor Dan Rather warns that…

A 44-year-old British man may be the first person ever to be cured of HIV

A 44-year-old man in England may be the first person ever to be cured of…

Pediatrician slams anti-vaxxer parents: ‘My dog is safer in a kennel than my child is at school’

A Melbourne pediatric doctor is fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children,…

When researchers trolled conspiracy theorists with random false info, they bought it every time

According to a February, 2015 study, conspiracy theorists are so gullible, they completely lack the…

Does your candidate even science, bro?

Science and politics don’t seem like familiar bedfellows, but they’ve forged an unlikely and reluctant…

There’s been a huge breakthrough in the search for a Zika virus drug

Follow @deadstatetweets According to Science Daily, a team of researchers at Florida State University, Johns…

Physicist Brian Cox confronts and exposes Australia’s most vocal climate change denier on live TV

Malcom Roberts is a newly-elected Australian senator who is also one of the country’s most…

That silly ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ from two summers ago led to a breakthrough in the fight against ALS

Two summers ago, lots of people, including me, mocked the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge.” Looks…

Déjà vu all over again: Scientists say monkeys in Brazil entered the Stone Age 700 years ago

According to a study published last year, we now know that modern humanity is no…

Scientists say the hole on the ozone layer is showing the ‘fingerprints of healing’

In an astounding revelation from the science world, scientists from MIT and other institutes have…