Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orange/yellow lit curve of the earth is bordered by a bright atmospheric layer that turns to blue and fades to black. Ancient ...

In this crazy era of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and people who think giants built Ohio’s mounds, appreciating the difference between actual facts and “alternative facts” has never been more ...

The witness on the stand pauses before answering, then looks briefly up and to the right while giving a response. While listening to the next question, she places a finger over her lips, angles her ...

Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about ...

Facebook has been letting advertisers target users interested in "pseudoscience," allowing them to capitalize on the conspiracy theories and misinformation regarding coronavirus that have run rampant ...

There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On the Fringe, Gordin, a historian at Princeton University, does not deny that there are endeavors afoot in ...

Alchemy is no longer a myth. See how scientists turned lead to gold by recreating Big Bang conditions on Earth and why this ...

Zac Efron doesn’t say much except “Dude” and “Wow” in his Netflix docu-series Down to Earth. It’s a mostly innocuous show. If you’re the type of person who’s into the actor’s buff, scruffy bro-dude ...

Every Tuesday, the Washington Post has a special section devoted to health and science. It’s usually my favorite section, with features such as “medical mysteries” and highlights of the latest news ...

Drawing the boundary between science and pseudoscience isn't always straightforward. Amid the clear extremes is a murky territory occupied by bad science, fraudulent science, and sometimes even ...

Last week, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault on vaccines and science escalated, with the cancellation of Moderna’s federal funding to develop a vaccine for bird flu, ...

Craig Foster doesn’t mean to step on Bigfoot’s mythical toes but, in a world of instant information and dangerous data, he thinks it’s important to develop skills that allow you to determine fact from ...