Evidence-Free Challenges Increase Public Misconceptions, Feed the World Of “Parallel Science”

Some people think this fungus looks like a bloody tooth, while others think it resembles a tasty pastry. What do you think?

On a quest to locate water and other volatile minerals in the Moon’s soil, the LCROSS experiment—Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite—hurtled a spent Centaur rocket into a dark crater at the lunar South Pole last year. The crater, known as Cabeus, is one of the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon, and researchers believe it is also one of the coldest.