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.
# politics
Nuclear energy has to be harnessed with great care and radiation is extremely dangerous if not properly contained. But fear-mongering about both to shut down nuclear power generation is simply dishonest.
# space
Space-based solar arrays promise to harness the raw power of the sun without atmospheric diffusion. But how do we get that power down from orbit?
# tech
Fusion simply has far too much promise not to keep pursing, even if the progress seems slow right now.