Christmas Came Early for America’s UFO Community
Robin Loznak/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 16, UFO researchers and enthusiasts, along with the general public, were treated to an unexpected gift from the New York Times. In a front-page investigation, the country’s most august news organization grappled with a topic that’s usually relegated to the fringes, detailing…
Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a rainy day in April, 100,000 demonstrators—led by some of the nation’s most prominent scientists—converged on the National Mall for the first ever March for Science. It was Earth Day, and many of them were there to protest the environmental policies…
A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…
Have Yourself a Porny Little Christmas
Kangah/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It could be the gift-giving, the mistletoe, or the spiked eggnog—but something about Christmas seems to make people want to get it on. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers from Portugal and Indiana University analyzed Google searches between 2004 and 2014…
Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…
What Siri Says When New Zealanders Ask About Sex
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Tell me about menopause.” “Am I at risk of HIV?” “Is it OK to put a jade egg in my vagina?” A team of New Zealand researchers posed these questions and 47 others to digital assistants to determine how effectively Siri et…