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
One of the most destructive and hardest to defend against weapons we could build would be an inert slug of exotic alloys that does its damage using nothing but speed. A lot of speed.
# tech
Yes, cyber warfare is real. No, the next attack won't plunge us back into the Stone Age.
# politics
Would a draft really discourage more Americans from supporting wars abroad?
# tech
The NSA wants to scan the internet in real time and store whatever it can catch for later. But are they ready for the challenge that poses?
# space
"Whoops, sorry about colliding with your satellite, it was a complete accident we'll absolutely investigate. We promise..."
# tech
Pundits are dueling over the question of how afraid we should be of a devastating cyber attack.
# space
We need to clean up Earth's orbit from more than half a century of working in space. But it's a complicated task, logistically and politically.
# tech
Far from keeping analyses of potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure nodes, pundits are hyperventilating.
# space
Internet pedants fact checking space battles like to pick on the idea of deploying fighters in space. That seems like a big mistake.
# politics
The bin Laden conspiracy theorists do bring up one really good point. How could Pakistan not have known where the terrorist mastermind was hiding?