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
Don't you wish there was a handy checklist to quickly and easily detect junk science online? Well, you're in luck...
# science
Unfortunately, some of the most popular sci-fi weapons are only impressive because they sound cool...
# science
There's a good reason for cells to eventually die, and if they become immortal, very bad things happen...
# tech
If you can't promise people actual immortality, you can sometimes get away with promising them the next big thing.
# oddities
What happens when you think a little too deep about biological weirdness in ads.
# astrobiology
We can laugh all we want at the idea of a UFO stealing our stuff. Until they actually start doing it...
# science
Hollywood is trying to make movies a little more scientifically plausible by asking real scientists for advice.