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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It would be amazing for the LHC to find the Higgs boson. It would be even more interesting if it doesn't.
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Zero point energy is a favorite term for sci-fi writers and physics cranks. But while they think it means free energy from nothing, it's actually just a quantum state.
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An experiment has detected neutrinos moving slightly faster than the speed of light and the scientists can't believe their results.
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Cosmologists are still puzzling over faint signals in the CMBR that may or may not be there and indicate profound events in our past or to our future.
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Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.
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You can answer a homeopath's question but you can't make him read it or understand why he was wrong.
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A group of researchers armed with very strong opinions and flawed studies do not constitute a consensus on the effects of video game violence on children.
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Accommodationists are still trying to spread their message even though pretty much no one but other accommodationists is listening.
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Bottled water, now marked up beyond any reason and sold with meaningless quantum technobabble.
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Egged on by cranks and quacks, the media seems obsessed with how nice someone is instead of whether what they're saying makes any sense.