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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Alcohol isn't just the cause of and answer to most of life's problems, it also tells us something fundamental about the nature of all matter.
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It seems we finally understand something about black holes and their behavior.
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Geneticist Jerry Crabtree jumps on the natural-selection-for-humans-is-dead bandwagon with a study of human intelligence that doesn't say what he thinks it does.
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Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
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Scientists found a way to temporary induce psychopathy in text subjects, and that has some mulling the darker applications of this technology.
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Andrea Rossi is still keeping up his cold fusion scam and taking a community of fervent believers for a ride in the process.
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We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
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Giving until it hurts is a feel good battlecry, not a viable strategy for development and progress.
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The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.
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A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.