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
We don't know what will happen to North Korea now that Kim Jong Il is dead, but we know it's not going to be good.
# health
How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?
# tech
Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
# space
A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
# politics
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, 04.13.1949 - 12.15.2011
# science
It would be amazing for the LHC to find the Higgs boson. It would be even more interesting if it doesn't.
# tech
A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.
# space
How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
# space
An Italian mathematician is trying to replace dark matter observation by playing with models of gravitational measurements.
# politics
The Arab Spring is not turning the Middle East into a hotbed of secularism. But given the history and demographics of the region, it would be strange to expect it to.