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.
# evolution
Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.
# science
Bill Dembski thinks he can disprove evolution with information theory. But he doesn't understand enough about biology or statistics to apply it.
# science
Creationists think evolution is either nonexistent or some sort of deity-guided progression towards perfection. The reality is much more of a mixed bag...
# evolution
Natural selection is starting to kick in to save the Y chromosome from itself.
# tech
Making robots compete for survival like living things shows us how some complex behaviors like altruism and parasitism might have evolved.
# science
The universe is not "made for life" as is often said. Life just, uh, finds a way.
# evolution
Once again, the concept of descent proves just too difficult for creationists to understand, or at least argue about in good faith.
# evolution
Scientists want to know what forced T. Rex to evolve small forearms. But what if it wasn't anything in particular?
