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 ...

Ancient aliens. Astrology. Flat-Earth and UFO conspiracies. These are examples of pseudoscience, a system of beliefs that masquerades as true science but is far from it. To understand how ...

Let’s sit back and take inventory of all the things that make science exactly what it is. There are the careful measurement techniques. The various apparatuses used to perform experiments in the ...

A casual glance at my high school report card might make that hard to believe, but it’s true. If social studies is the mythology of how we came to be where we are today, science is the magic. The ...

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is upon us. Once again, the world’s greatest athletes will gather to get frisky, wow audiences with unforgettable performances, and show off a dizzying array of ...

Like us, so many people in New York love this educational treasure. What we don't love is the pseudoscience junk that we recently found for sale in its gift shop. There are few places in New York City ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, and has developed space-related titles for Monash University's MWorld educational app. As a ...

Critics are calling out Netflix for giving Gwyneth Paltrow's The Goop Lab series a platform. (Photo: Getty Images) Netflix is stirring up controversy by giving Gwyneth Paltrow a platform to share what ...

During my first term of full-time teaching in 1977, I used astrology as a case study in my course in the philosophy of science. The goal was to guide the students through the differences between ...