The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with ...

Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (Times Books, 2005). According to intelligent-design theory, life is ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota lawmakers will hear testimony Wednesday, Feb. 12, regarding a bill to require schools to teach "intelligent design" — the idea that an intelligent entity designed the universe ...

Opponents of Senate Bill 2355 say teaching intelligent design in science classes invites litigation, while supporters say the idea deserves the same attention as the theory of evolution. North Dakota ...

"Judging Science" brought out an emotional aspect of intelligent design (C&EN, Nov. 27, 2006, page 32). Darwin, like Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in pangenesis, so no one is a true Darwinist today.

In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching “intelligent ...

ZURICH & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KNIME, an open source data analytics company, today announced the availability of “Guide to Intelligent Data Science; How to Intelligently Make Use of Real ...

Really. Where are all the aliens? We should have been probed, exterminated, assimilated, infected, invaded or abducted by now, shouldn't we? The Fermi Paradox ponders the lack of evidence of another ...