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.
# sex
In the latest blow to the media's myth of hookup culture, it turns out that hookup apps are actually really bad at letting users hook up.
# health
Researchers tried to test whether debates about vaccination lead to more extreme polarization and found a complete shutdown of all debate. But is their study critically flawed?
# tech
Thanks to social media, everybody can be a pundit today, and that’s ruining how we build a factual understanding of our world and what’s happening in it.
# science
Denialists are now imagining cabals of ecoterrorists burning down entire ecosystems so they don't have to admit that scientists were right about the symptoms of climate change.
# tech
Code storage and sharing platform GitHub wants to archive open source software for up to 10,000 years. But is that a good idea, and could we use its momentum to rethink how and why we code?
# space
When some stars die, they take their entire systems with them. Others appear to give their planets a fighting chance.
# space
A new study sees evidence of more than a dozen galaxies that seem to lack dark matter and raises big questions about our ideas of galaxy formation.
# science
It turns out that clothes have an amazing effect on how we're perceived by others, even at first glance.
# space
Why do popular science news keep offering new theories about the basic shape of our universe every week?
# oddities
For some people, science is not enough but religion is too implausible to explain our origins, so instead of making their peace with one, they turn to a curious mix of both.