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
By neglecting their scientists and educations, politicians aren't saving money for their citizens, they're undermining their countries' future.
# tech
Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?
# science
Peer review isn't perfect. But it's still our best hope for quality science and catching errors and frauds with a few small, but meaningful tweaks.
# science
The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.
# education
The military is running out of nerds and worries it doesn't have enough to develop and control its future high tech weapons. But the government isn't about to incentivize STEM students with anything other than PR...
# science
According to biology pioneer J. Craig Venter, the first step to personalized medicine and new tools to fight cancer are faster computers.
# health
Not all supplements are bad for you, but not all of them are good or effective either. But we do have an idea which ones are better than others...
# science
DARPA's new moonshot experiment sounds like a recipe for invincible monsters straight out of a B horror movie.
# science
If we ever ended up in the past, it's tempting to think our modern skills would make us rich and famous. But putting those skills to use centuries ago is trickier than it sounds...
# politics
Science is the first thing politicians cut and the last thing they fund. They're trading short term cash for long term growth.