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
A satirical book about exterminating 90% of all men for a better world got some traction again. What would happen if we took it seriously and followed through?
# health
One good way to fight bacteria that have a resistance to antibiotics may be to remove their resistance to antibiotics...
# science
A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
# science
South Korea reverses its creationist-friendly course after consulting with scientists over the contents of its school textbooks.
# science
When creationists try to frame studies of evolutionary mechanisms as proof of a deity, they have their arguments exactly in reverse.
# science
Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.
# evolution
Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.
# science
A new technology to tap into individual neurons offers amazing possibilities for prosthetics and intricate implants.
# science
No matter how good the intentions, designing the babies of a future generations is simply not going to work in the long term.
# tech
There's a reason why we can see and understand things robots can't, and that reason might be a cluster of neurons known as V4.