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.
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Many humans can drink milk long after they start eating solid food. But science is still not sure if they should.
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As scientists search for evidence of life on other worlds in our solar system and beyond, they’re starting to ask how to define life in the first place.
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Scientists studying how communication and cooperation evolves are turning towards dogs to shed light on long-standing mysteries.
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Intelligent life on Earth may owe its existence to an ancient virus which inserted its genetic code and machinery into early tetrapods and now helps their neurons talk to each other.
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A widely covered study alleges that humans lost the penile bone and a certain measure of endurance in mating. But that finding seems to be at odds with other studies.
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We finally know why elephants are more resistant to cancers than humans. Can we use the same strategy they do?
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Numerous studies show that humans have a biological aversion to extreme unfairness and inequality, and lash out when we encounter it.
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Another scary side-effect of global warming may be the resurrection of ancient viruses from melting permafrost.
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The easy way to make gene therapy more effective may be to resurrect a virus' evolutionary ancestors in a lab...