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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We’re taught that our universe looks and works the same way in every direction. That may not be entirely true.
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The universe may be the way it is today because the physics of matter and antimatter work just a bit differently...
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Stephen Wolfram joins a long line of theoreticians who believe they uncovered how the universe really works. He, like all of them, is almost certainly wrong.
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According to some scientists, we may be stuck in some sort of alien version of The Matrix and never know it.
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Just because the universe is dying doesn’t mean you and your civilization have to die with it, at least not if you’re ready to go stellar grave robbing.
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It turns out that one of the oldest objects in the known universe is only a few thousand light years from Earth.
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We're here for an exciting time, not a long time. And we should use that time doing something fun and constructive.
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Continuing the trend of looking too closely to CMBR maps, a group of cosmologists says they found evidence of "bruises" from collisions with other universes.
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While many physicists are trying to dive deeper and deeper into the complexities of space and time, others are looking for a much simpler explanation of the universe's mysteries.
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If our universe is one of many, just how many others are out there? A duo of physicists try to answer that question. Well, sort of...