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
Geneticist Jerry Crabtree jumps on the natural-selection-for-humans-is-dead bandwagon with a study of human intelligence that doesn't say what he thinks it does.
# science
Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
# tech
No, a Dyson sphere around our sun isn't a plausible project for the next few thousand years. And maybe not even then.
# astrobiology
If aliens want to go really, really fast, there's a small chance we could catch them in the act.
# science
How much are we actually willing to pay for future innovations in science and technology? And not in a figurative way...
# science
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.
# tech
How could it be harder to lie online if you can hide your identity? Well, the internet never forgets a fib...
# tech
Another year, another peek under the hood of Weird Things.
# space
Continuing the trend of looking too closely to CMBR maps, a group of cosmologists says they found evidence of "bruises" from collisions with other universes.
# space
If wormholes big enough for spaceships to traverse exist, we should be able to detect them just by looking at the sky.