Who’ll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study?
When it comes to big, ambitious science conducted on human beings, you have to ask: Who benefits? Is it you?…
The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections
No one knows if lethal injection really is more humane than other execution methods. And they can’t really find out.…
Valerian’s Biggest PR Problem: It Did Everything First
To sell Luc Besson’s latest sci-fi epic, his studio has to make it look familiar—but also new. The post Valerian’s…
Trump’s Budget Would Break American Science, Today and Tomorrow
By eviscerating federal funding of science, this proposed budget pays for a world where the only infrastructure is megacities connected…
Last Night’s Oscars Tour Bus Bit Underscored a Deep Divide
Bringing a group of unsuspecting tourists into the theater wasn’t just the prelude to an offensive moment—it was a small…
The Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green, and We Know Why!
The pool went from limpid and chlorinated to green overnight, but our crack team of scientific investigators that we do…
A Year Ago, The Dress Murdered the Idea of Objective Color
Despite thousands of years of thinking and hundreds of years of research, scientists are still working out exactly why people…
Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Orgasms—With Science!
A website hopes to teach women how to have better orgasms, backed up by data. The post Silicon Valley Wants…
Rescue Robots Should Be Built Just Like Cockroaches. Sorry.
The same ability that makes roaches gross–their flexible, collapsible exoskeleton–makes them a good model for disaster robots. The post Rescue…
We Asked a Robot to Write an Obit for AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky
Spoiler: The robot did a pretty good job, and hit its deadline. The post We Asked a Robot to Write…