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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Transhumanists preaching the Gospel of the Singularity are right that we don't have to let nature dictate our future. But their absolute faith in utopian technology that hasn't yet been invented is misplaced.
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A popular criticism of radical life extension is that society and life cycles would break down. But that's not what happens in organisms whose lives we dramatically increased in the lab.
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To Ray Kurzweil and his adherents, the "exponential curve of technology" is an immutable law of nature. But does it actually exist in the real world?
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Some engineers are convinced that neurons work the same way as circuits. Neuroscience begs to differ.
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For Ray Kurzweil and his disciples, the "exponential curve of technological advancement" is the way, the light, and the cure for all that ails us...
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Computers might be able to record your every aspect of your life, but do you really want them to?
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Electric cars and the natural next step in the evolution of transport. But they have some hurdles to clear before becoming truly widespread.
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Fusion simply has far too much promise not to keep pursing, even if the progress seems slow right now.
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When you're promised eternal life as a hyper-intelligent machine, it's hard to not check out its confabs.
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A team of engineers from the UK is trying to build a car capable of breaking the sound barrier, testing the limits of our strongest and most heat-resistant materials in the process.