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.
# science
Amazingly, you can cool something to below absolute zero. And what happens when you do is really, really weird...
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A new experiment shows that the quantum world obeys causality only begrudgingly, and sometimes, not at all...
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Zero point energy is a favorite term for sci-fi writers and physics cranks. But while they think it means free energy from nothing, it's actually just a quantum state.
# space
A neutron star that suddenly cooled gives us a hint at what's going on in its superheated innards.
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Quantum communication is a powerful tool, but it's not impossible to hack or very practical yet, especially for military purposes.
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Dr. Robert Lanza thinks he's discovered the secret of immortality and it's something very quantum and involving rebooting time loops...
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We still have no idea how quantum entanglement works, but we know it's much, much faster than the speed of light...
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A thought experiment on what might happen if you try to teleport your way through traffic in front of a police car.
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John Polkinghorne managed to create a version of God that's both truly omnipresent and omniscient, and almost entirely powerless and irrelevant.
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Some 90% of the visible universe appeared to be missing. We finally found the right tools to see it...