People don’t realize how corrupt science is. They need to know, because science is where the standards of rationality are set for the rest of society. A better realization of what’s going on in science should result in science being criticized for validity and evidence, like everything else in society. The best way to characterize the state of science is with examples. To start with something... 

Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter’s mass, making it the lowest-mass planet ever directly imaged around a star like the sun. Meet GJ 504b, a cute-looking Jupiter-sized planet, currently the lowest-mass celestial body outside of solar system, which astronomers managed to image directly. Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered... 

German physicist Christof Wetterich proposed an interesting model of the universe, which, in contrast to the standard view, is not expanding. According to his concept, modern space is quite stationary, or even already started to slowly shrink. The scientist managed to bypass numerous slippery questions of the Big Bang Theory. The idea that the universe is expanding is quite young, and emerged less... 

Some 5,000 different personality traits can be explored based on the person’s handwriting, according to the research from the National Pen Company in the United States. According to the study the behavioral profile can be determined based on the process of analyzing a person’s handwriting which is called graphology. The recent study dubbed infographic analyzes the way each person spaces letters... 

The trace of a flying object in the sky over Chelyabinsk / still from a dashboard camera Posting videos from a vehicle’s dashboard camera online violates the Russian constitution and should be banned, the head of the Lower House mass media committee has said. Aleksei Mitrofanov spoke at a Tuesday roundtable dedicated to protection of children from the hazards of the internet, in particular obscenities... 

New analysis conducted by the Swiss scientists has uncovered that moonlight can affect good sleep patterns on nights around the full moon. The study that was carried out by researchers from the University of Basel and other research centers, suggest that lunar influence is behind sleep disruption during the full moon nights. To examine the data, researchers studied 33 volunteers sleeping in tightly... 

Nearly every car being manufactured right now comes with a little added bonus by way of a tiny recording device nestled under the center console. And if you’re looking to keep your driving habits under wraps, you might want to start worrying. As many as 96 percent of the cars mass-produced in 2013 include event data recorders, or EDRs, yet the existence of these small “black box” surveillance... 

NASA image from 21 March, 2000 shows a “direct” picture of the first four years of Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory spacecraft’s Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope(EGRET) data. A desolate site in Siberia will soon become the forefront of international research into the secrets of the Universe, after the world’s biggest gamma ray detection array scientists are creating there comes... 

The Government of the Russian Federation approved a “roadmap” for the development of biotechnology and genetic engineering, to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done to catch up with the rest of the world in this segment of the market. The document, posted on the website of the government, says that the global biotechnology market has been developing rapidly and is expected... 

Many carriers all over the world have jumped through all sorts of hoops in order to secure that precious iPhone deal with Apple but this is the first time carriers that have already offered the Apple smartphone are giving up on it. According to Hi-Tech Russia VimpelCom known by its Beeline brand has broken all ties with Apple over serving the iPhone after its contract expired. This is the third (and... 

US Navy Reservists and active duty personnel don their M-45 Nuclear/Biological/and Chemical Warfare gas masks during an Individual Augmentee Training Course at the McCrady Training Center in South Carolina. Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed deep concern about biological warfare activities of the United States near the Russian borders. The Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign... 

Microsoft’s general counsel has written to the US Attorney General Eric Holder saying that the secrecy regarding the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance is damaging the “constitutional principles” of America. Microsoft has asked the Obama administration to allow it to share details about how it responds to requests from the US government for user account data. Microsoft’s general counsel... 

The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever. According to documents obtained through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by ACLU offices across the United States, law enforcement agencies are tracking the whereabouts of... 

Thanks to archival photographs taken with the help of Hubble telescope, scientists found out that Neptune had 14, not 13 satellites, as was previously believed. The new satellite was discovered by American scientist Mark Showalter of SETI non-profit research institute network that is engaged in the search for extraterrestrial life. The specialist studied more than 150 images taken by the telescope... 

New study conducted by an international team of researchers has unveiled the mystery of a genetic flaw which significantly increases the risk of obesity. A type of gene called FTO, which is known as fat-boosting gene, has put many lives at higher risks of obesity that is estimated to be one in six people. The recent study revealed that FTO made fatty foods more tempting and affected on hunger hormone...