Now that we have found several bodies in the solar system that have liquid water, we should look for life in them.

Fussing about the fraction of high executives that are women is not just irrelevant for most women; it is a systematic distraction from the systematic factors that keep most women poor.

The UK government got court approval to impose a harmful contract on most of the doctors in the National Health Service.

They planned a week-long strike, met criticism because that could have harmed patients, and their strength was defeated by this. The end result is a victory for the plutocrats.

The Dutch investigation concludes that flight MH-17 was shot down by a Russian Buk missile.

The launcher was spotted various times on its route to the territory of the Ukrainian rebels.

Of course it was a mistake. No one involved in that war would have fired intentionally at an airliner.

It would be wrong to prosecute the soldiers that fired the missile for this mistake. Errors are frequent in the fog of war, and they should not be criminalized.

The US teen pregnancy rate is falling, as more teenagers use contraception.

But the US still has a higher teen pregnancy rate than other developed countries.