# oddities
Could Project Stargate have been an elaborate ruse to rattle the nerves of superstitious world leaders?
# science
Fossil fuel lobbyists are ready to give you asthma, COPD, and even lung cancer if it means they and their clients can make an extra dollar.
# oddities
Flat Earthers don't seem to realize that their theory violates basic laws of physics.
# oddities
Conspiracy theories are still looking for frozen Nazis in a fabled underground base.
# astrobiology
A new proposal posits that some of the fast radio bursts we've been routinely detecting may be coming from aliens, though not on purpose...
# oddities
WikiLeaks and pro-Kremlin trolls are charging the CIA with hacking the DNC to rig the election for Trump so they can... keep Trump from winning?
# science
Another study shows that Americans still don't seem to understand how science works.
# space
Knowing how life started right here at home can tell us how likely it is to sprout on another world.
# tech
If you're going to fight trolls, racists, and bigots with AI, you're going to need a much more comprehensive approach than a few neural networks...
# astrobiology
The TRAPPIST-1 solar system is the most unique one we've seen so far and could offer amazing possibilities for life.
# longform
A deep dive into the yawning chasm that is the urban/rural divide.
# oddities
Pizzagaters and Flat Earthers were bound to share adherents by the rules of crank magnetism. That doesn't mean they're happy about it.
# science
Scientists search for truth, not "balance" to appease partisans who already hate them anyway. If they get involved in politics, they shouldn't change their attitudes.
# tech
Big Pharma really doesn't want you to know if drugs from online pharmacies might be real for an extremely unethical and blatantly obvious reason.
# science
If scientists don't get aggressively involved in policy and soon, there might not be much science left for them to do...
