Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
Small, simple robots are making amazing leaps and bounds in evolving behavior similar to that of living things. But why? And how?
# evolution
For all the time we've spent admiring, sexualizing, and thinking about breasts, we still haven't figured out how and why they evolved.
# science
Just because the appendix is a vestigial organ doesn't mean it can't perform a minor beneficial function every once in a while.
# science
According to some researchers, "hey baby, that's a nice... uh... belly button you got there?" is the hot new pickup line we should be considering.
# science
The famed naturalist and science communicator is back with a new documentary about evolution that avoids similar efforts' typical mistakes.
# evolution
Once again, the concept of descent proves just too difficult for creationists to understand, or at least argue about in good faith.
# evolution
Creationists are deliberately confusing evolution with a popular theory it replaced.