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.
# health
The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.
# health
Researchers recommend a flu shot even in years when it's not very effective. Why? Because it slows the spread of the virus.
# astrobiology
The first step to figuring out if we found alien life is to define what we mean by living.