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.
# space
If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
# health
Over the last 16 years, DSHEA has been a massive giveaway to alt med and snake oil peddlers, doing far more harm than good.
# politics
Fundamentalist Christian zealots are holding prayer meetings to block... uh... expanded healthcare for their fellow Americans?
# space
Time calls the Ares rocket one of this year's best inventions. The problem is that nothing about Ares is actually new or inventive...
# health
Insurance companies could be forced to pay for faith healing and the Christian Science movement is ready to cash in.
# politics
No one wants the authorities snooping on them 24/7. So why did they vote for politicians who promised to do exactly that and delivered on that promise?
# space
Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
# space
The agency that sent humans to another world is now mired in its own red tape.
# space
NASA is trying to protect its budget from finance wonks by talking like them.
# space
Even with a pro-science administration, NASA should still be worried about its funding as apathy to science runs deep among politicians.