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.
# space
Space exploration is about to kick start a new era of nuclear energy and another chance to get the future right.
# oddities
Social media trolls declared “15-minute cities” to be a New World Order plan for open air mass prisons, derailing plans to make North American cities more livable yet again.
# tech
ChatGPT and its competitors are set to turn search, news, and social media into a complete dumpster fire.
# science
According to the news, our planet’s core has stopped spinning and will soon reverse. What’s really happening is a lot less exciting, but still pretty neat.
# health
One of scientists’ biggest fears about fungi and global warming is starting to slowly play out.
# tech
In a legal and technical first, a robot lawyer is about to help a human defendant. Is it a good idea? And what happens next?
# science
Despite what cranks, frauds, and their fans will tell you, scientists do listen to amateurs with good ideas, as two recent news stories demonstrate.
# science
Suburbs have long been the subject of consternation and ire from activists and urban planners, and research seems to agree with their critiques.
# science
According to pundits and politicians, we live in a world where talent and reward go hand in hand. But basic statistics says that’s simply not possible.
# science
After decades of promises, fusion research finally yielded the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting to see. Sort of. And there’s a lot of work still to do.