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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A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?
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When creationists try to frame studies of evolutionary mechanisms as proof of a deity, they have their arguments exactly in reverse.
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According to a group of Belgian scientists, neutrons switch universes when they decay because they decay when they switch universes.
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How do we shake people out of the cozy realities they tend to build for themselves online?
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Science doesn't move at the speed of headlines. It moves at whatever speed scientists can discover and confirm something new.
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For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.
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Seriously, it's not a good idea to encourage ignoramuses who see themselves as titans of science on the verge of being lavished with fame and fortune.
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Have we pumped enough greenhouse gases into the air to stop the next ice age? Some researchers think so but their models are inconclusive.
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You'd think that in the age of atomic clocks we wouldn't have debates about the passage of time. And yet, here we are...
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Cranks looking to debate serious scientists and scholars aren't looking to have a discussion. They shouldn't be given a platform and legitimacy by proxy.