Pluto's largest moon Charon is proving to be a magnificent world in its own right. The latest images from NASA's New Horizons flyby mission -- the highest resolution color images of Charon to date -- show a moon much more alive than our own. “We thought the probability of seeing such interesting features on this satellite of a world at the far edge of our solar system was low,” Ross Beyer, an affiliate of the New Horizons Geology...

The backfire effect is a term to describe how some individuals when confronted with evidence that conflicts with their beliefs come to hold their original position even more strongly.