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“Data science” is hot right now.

Analyzing data, especially in a table format, can be a formidable challenge. Edward Tufte has for decades championed using graphics to understand and evaluate data.

October is a great month. Cool weather has returned, the leaves are changing colors, and football is in full swing. And, for science geeks like me, the Nobel Prizes are announced.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is the Swiss-Army knife for skepticism about the world around us.

It's not a common side effect, but it's yet another addition to a long list of reasons not to see a chiropractor: They can make your eyes bleed.

When writing about this topic three weeks ago, our focus was mostly on the failure of high schools to protect student-at

Christmas tree farms don't cause global warming - and that is the scientific basis for why Europeans have decided to meet their emissions targets by...burning wood.

As an opioid “solution” completes its trip through Congress, a new article in Science shows that the “overdose crisis” has not only been with us for nearly 40 years but that it is not as monolithic as news bites and hotly worded advocacy suggests.

Do you think video games have led to more violent attacks by young people? You are not alone. Lots of people do.

You know it is going to be a bad day when you are featured in the New York Times, well really, any national news outlet. And by that measure, Dr. Jose Baselga, the now-former chief medical officer at Sloan Kettering, had a very bad week.