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.
# science
Despite what cranks, frauds, and their fans will tell you, scientists do listen to amateurs with good ideas, as two recent news stories demonstrate.
# science
The question of nature vs. nurture may never be settled when it comes to humans.
# tech
With so many imagining a future where machines exist not just by our side but as parts of us, we may have made sure that we have no choice but to become part robot.
# science
Researchers keep confirming that revealing more flesh and using more makeup can dehumanize you, but they haven't figured out exactly why.
# science
It turns out that clothes have an amazing effect on how we're perceived by others, even at first glance.
# politics
The good news is that foreign disinformation trolls aren't changing people's minds. The bad news is that, as it turns out, they don't have to…
# science
When you think about just how much dark matter there is in the universe, it would be pretty strange if it never harmed anyone or anything…
# podcast
This one is for every scientist and science writer who've been told that something is "just a theory" in response to an article.
# health
Getting fit is a massive industry which claims to have the latest science behind it. But as more people are taking their advice, the world's obesity epidemic is spreading. How is that possible?
# podcast
Dive into the shocking experiment that came eerily close to reanimating zombie pig brains and consider the exciting and terrifying consequences of the discovery it made.