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.
# tech
After analyzing millions of comments researchers can say for sure that the best way to deal with trolls is with deafening silence.
# space
Astronauts will go stir crazy and get cabin fever on interplanetary missions. And it will have to be every mission planner's job to keep them sane and entertained.
# science
A study shows that the further we're personally removed from a harmful or even lethal action, the easier we can rationalize its execution.
# tech
If you're going to be a self-described AI psychologist, you have to understand how AI actually works.
# tech
A team of researchers drove a robot insane, literally. On purpose. And their findings can shed light on the origins of schizophrenia.
# science
A group of researchers armed with very strong opinions and flawed studies do not constitute a consensus on the effects of video game violence on children.
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Researchers show that far more of us than we'd admit would harm a stranger for the promise of cold, hard cash.
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Often times, the loudest defenders of a belief aren't trying to convince you. They're trying to convince themselves.
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The bigger the crime, the less inclined we seem to emphasize with each victim.
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What does it mean to be real? An awkward introductions to scientific mass solipsism.