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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The COVID 20 is the new Freshman 15, and snake oil salespeople are out in full force to cash in as people try to shed some weight and get active again.
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Giving terminally ill patients a chance to try experimental drugs also means protecting them from scammers.
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Years of constant nagging about growing antibiotic resistance and its dire consequences, the public and industry still act as if they're blissfully unaware and are overusing antibiotics at an alarming rate.
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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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Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.
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Clickbait punditry is selling a story about a study into male birth control whose participants wimped out. But that's not at all what happened...
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The City of Berkley took on science and the science lost because it was represented by a trade group that argued about free speech rights instead.
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Technology that can keep organs preserved and functioning outside a body are raising some thorny moral questions for ethicists.
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Why is Theranos so secretive about its technology? It may be because it has no incentive to disclose its methods...
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Researchers test a neural mesh that envelops the brain in electrodes without invasive, complex surgery in an exciting step forward in human-machine interfaces.