# tech
A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.
# astrobiology
It's one thing when people can't explain the weird things they see in the night sky. But what if a UFO sighting takes place over a military base and high ranking officers have no idea what happened?
# oddities
With the Soviet space program often shrouded in secrecy, there are many tales of cosmonauts whose grim fates were deliberately omitted from the country's history.
# science
Scientists found a way to temporary induce psychopathy in text subjects, and that has some mulling the darker applications of this technology.
# science
Andrea Rossi is still keeping up his cold fusion scam and taking a community of fervent believers for a ride in the process.
# politics
Elevatorgate was an incident worth talking about and what it means for the future of skeptical conferences. Watson turned it into a personal brand instead.
# tech
Data centers are getting a bum rap, but behind the scenes, they're working hard on trying to keep the internet more reliable and their power usage more efficient.
# tech
Policy wonks are trying to wrap their minds around how to fight a war in cyberspace, but their thinking keeps defaulting to conventional warfare.
# space
Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
# science
We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
# science
Giving until it hurts is a feel good battlecry, not a viable strategy for development and progress.
# science
The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.
# politics
In an effort to cater to religious fundamentalists in its ranks, the Israeli Defense Force is letting religious sexism compromise battle readiness.
# science
A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.
# sex
Stephen Crowder's attempt to encourage abstinence until marriage among teenagers and adults inadvertently shows all the downsides to this approach.