# tech
A new experiment shows that we can give paralyzed patients the ability to move their wheelchairs with their thoughts alone.
# space
You've probably never seen a meteor quite like this...
# science
This is what happens when you're told you shouldn't read the comments but do it anyway.
# astrobiology
Retired military officers claim that aliens are visiting Earth to discourage us from using nuclear weapons on each other. But how would aliens know if we have nukes?
# space
According to four physicist time will keep going for billions of years until one day it will just... stop.
# tech
While the Singularity Institute is celebrating their vision on a mainstream sitcom, it's actually become a punchline...
# space
We think Gliese 581g might have liquid water on its surface. How do we check if it really does?
# politics
What do most atheists actually want? Surprisingly for many theists, it's not the abolition of faith...
# politics
For appearance of factual correctness, insult both sides of argument regardless of facts, rinse, repeat, sell book.
# astrobiology
It's not completely impossible that you could have some alien DNA. But the odds are literally astronomical.
# science
Step one: paint all scientists as completely un-relatable weirdos. Step two: wonder why so few kids want to grow up to be scientists.
# tech
Stuxnet is scary, but we don't yet have clear evidence that it was the first cyber attack by a nation state.
# politics
Germans are rallying against keeping their nuclear power plants open solely out of fear whipped up by environmental activists.
# politics
Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.
# tech
The robots who may assist us and take care of our basic needs in the future don't have to be humanoid to be useful. It may even be better if they're not.
