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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As aspiring AI designer picks a very passionate fight with a way of thinking about AI that's been dead for three decades.
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The infamous NASA-backed paper claiming that exotic biochemistry was found on Earth gets eviscerated in the latest round in reviews.
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Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.
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Science doesn't move at the speed of headlines. It moves at whatever speed scientists can discover and confirm something new.
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For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.
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A computer just made a genuine scientific discovery. But it's creators are somewhat overselling it when they imply that it's an entity with a scientific mind.
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Two Italians claim they cracked cold fusion and are ready to build a small power plant for paying customers. Their proof, however, points to this being an obvious scam.
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Politicians want to cut scientific research and education programs, ignoring how little they'd actually be cutting and how many people it will truly affect.
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Is becoming a scientist really worth it today? Surprisingly, a lot of PhDs are recommending against it.
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It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.