Stories from the Edge

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

In 1966, a CIA polygraph expert claimed his houseplant could read his mind and finger a killer in a lineup. That story never replicated. The real story — seed pods, nettles, and DNA that convicted actual killers — is stranger, better documented, and needs no embellishing.

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

The standard explanation for near-death experiences is that they are a product of the dying brain — oxygen deprivation, neurotransmitter floods, the mind's last-ditch attempt to make sense of its own shutdown. It's a clean, materialist explanation, and for decades it was enough to stop

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The plants in the greenhouse were stressed. They had been left without water for several days, or had their stems cut, or had been left alone. And they were, as it turned out, making noise about it. Not noise you can hear. The sounds registered between 20 and 100 kilohertz

The Future Is Already Here — and It Says It Understands

I went looking for hand cream. I found the machinery underneath everything. A company built on care deployed undisclosed AI to perform it — and only revealed the truth when pressed.

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