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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Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.
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South Korea reverses its creationist-friendly course after consulting with scientists over the contents of its school textbooks.
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For supernovae to have a real impact on our climate, they'd have to be a lot closer and happen a lot more often.
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It's not a revelation that people like creationist "just-so" stories. Pundits need to stop insisting that scientists make up some of their own.
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Too many of the lawmakers who sit on the House Science and Technology Committee are the absolute worst people to be on such a committee.
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Celebrity skeptics collapse in on themselves in a multi-blog feud that has absolutely nothing to do with science and education.
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Far too many denizens of social media are upset that Curiosity cost $2.5 billion because they don't understand how and why that money was spent.
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Jargon is useful, but not when you're tying to explain the fundamentals of your work.
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Sometimes it's hot for a couple of weeks. But sometimes, that heat wave is part of a pattern that hints at bad things to come...
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The existence of the Higgs boson has been confirmed and the Standard Model is upheld yet again. Now what?