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.
# oddities
Wealthy investors and tycoons are joining the ranks of doomsday preppers, planning elaborate post-apocalypse compounds and bunkers, or dystopian power grabs.
# tech
Bitcoin’s rival wants to eliminate its vast contributions of energy waste and global warming. Will the original crypto coin follow suit?
# astrobiology
A new discovery of organic molecules in Martian sediment doesn’t prove there was life on the red planet. But it does help build the case for it.
# tech
Governments are no longer just interested in controlling social media narratives with bots and premium content. They’re now reaching for new laws.
# astrobiology
A physicist who keeps making wild claims about alien technology and in the solar system now claims there are parts of an alien spaceship in the Pacific Ocean.
# space
Some of the largest galaxies in the cosmos aren’t creating new stars. Now scientists finally think they know why.
# tech
We keep seeing artificial intelligence do more and more impressive things. But the most impressive thing it can do next is to fit in our hands.
# science
Bioengineering company Colossal wants to bring back the wooly mammoth and the thylacine. But could they actually do it? And most importantly, should they?
# tech
In a quest for productivity from remote workers, companies are creating a totalitarian nightmare in which computers police employees’ every second.
# science
Police are starting to use newborns’ blood samples in criminal investigations involving their parents, alarming privacy advocates and legal scholars.