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
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.
# science
We have a new design for a fusion reactor that's showing great promise. We owe it to ourselves to give it a fair shot at making fusion work.
# tech
The founder of Soylent is trying to make outsourcing your carbon footprint an accomplishment. It's not.
# astrobiology
Could advanced alien civilizations turn to artificial black holes to meet their energy needs? And could we detect the emissions from their maws when they feed?
# politics
Anti-nuclear NIMBYism has not gotten better over the years. In fact, it's getting worse.
# politics
Germans are rallying against keeping their nuclear power plants open solely out of fear whipped up by environmental activists.
# space
Black holes radiate virtually no energy, much less anything we'd consider heat. But that doesn't mean their innards aren't superheated to cosmic extremes...
# space
While we'd need to generate an immense amount of energy to power a warp drive, there are events in this universe with that kind of energy output...
# tech
Oil is a finite resource, and if it runs out before we're ready, it will be a massive economic disaster, as a NatGeo doomsday scenario shows in grim detail.
# health
Alt med practitioners decided that the one of world's simplest and most famous formulas is their friend because they clearly don't understand it.