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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Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.
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A team of researchers drove a robot insane, literally. On purpose. And their findings can shed light on the origins of schizophrenia.
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Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.
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According to Mike Adams, homeopathy is superior to actual medicine because it actually doesn't seem to do anything.
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A new experiment shows that we can give paralyzed patients the ability to move their wheelchairs with their thoughts alone.
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Antibiotic resistance is rising and becoming a real threat. But we still have time and methods to fight it.
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Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.
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Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.
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The city of San Francisco wants cell phone makers to display information showing that their phones are harmless in the most menacing and confusing way possible.
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Despite decades of experiments and mountains of evidence, there are still activists who refuse to believe HIV causes AIDS. And they have blood on their hands.