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Thankfully, Cambridge University’s renowned boffin Professor Stephen Hawking is making a good recovery in the city’s Addenbrooke’s Hospital after a chest infection. Although apparently he is still having tests for something unrelated.
Hawking who also suffers from a form of ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) is [...]

The research that started the debate was published in 2003 in the journal Science by Aaron J. Romanowsky and his colleagues. In that article Romanowsky claimed that he found a surprising fact: dark matter, which is thought to be surrounding galaxies across the universe, is absent from one type of galaxy known as an "elliptical" [...]

Cartoonist Tim Kreider’s comic “The Pain – When Will It End?” presents a reasoned comparison of scientific views of the universe’s and humankind’s origins as opposed to those of Norse mythology in his one-page comic from December, Science vs. Norse Mythology.

Take a few minutes to read Jay Hosler’s four-page comic The Diabolical Dr. No No No [PDF]. Whimsical, yet profound reminder of the nature of science education.