# oddities
Unlike pop sci headlines keep telling you, scientists have not found any evidence that we're all just products of an alien computer.
# tech
The only worse thing than basing all of human existence around the highs and lows of arbitrary numbers is putting computers in charge of these numbers.
# science
A group of scientists has been arguing that the dinosaurs' fate was sealed long before the asteroid hit. Now, supercomputers are putting this idea to the test.
# sex
Evolution and surveys by scientists and condom manufacturers could answer every heterosexual man's age-old question...
# science
Scientists discovered that the signal linking between our hearts and brains has the telltale sign of quantum entanglement. Now what?
# longform
Unfortunately, despite what you're told in most movies and TV shows, the cops are not your friends, and they may not be there to help you.
# science
We already know that highly processed foods are bad for you. But several new studies show that it's even worse for you than we thought, damaging both your waistline and mood.
# space
A citizen scientist caught two large planets slamming into each other. A team of astronomers then watched what happened over the next three years.
# sex
A new study shows that we not only lie about how much porn we consume, but project our own desires on others when asked about those around us.
# science
With the planet heating up in more obvious ways, new models show that up to six billion people could be stranded in zones too hostile for humans by 2100.
# tech
After losing his shirt, pants, and boxers in crypto investments, the head of a16z is re-committing to the Nerd Rapture, and commanding that you join him.
# science
We've made an awful lot of plastic, and it's a global ecological disaster. Now, bacteria that can eat it might be our best bet to get rid of it. At a steep price.
# tech
How one hugely influential book fostered a business obsession, what it got wrong, and how its fans in the tech industry wrought havoc with it.
# science
As researchers study how narcissists truly see the world, they're learning a lot of new things about their views of others' competence and humility.
# science
Researchers trying to model what our planet will be like in 250 million years have some very bad news for us.
