Hello world!

Well, hello there!

Welcome to Refractor.

We're trying something new here, and we'd love you to come along on the ride. The whole idea behind Refractor is to bring science into focus by giving great writers the freedom to dig into ideas they find compelling and then delivering you original, offbeat stories.

We should probably tell you up front, we're skeptical about a lot of things. When we see press releases celebrating medical “breakthroughs” or studies telling us what we should be eating to live longer, our spidey senses are triggered. How? Why? Really?

We have a weekly newsletter designed as a filter to the firehose of health and science news. It'll point you toward the best things we have published recently, and give you some behind-the-scenes insights into what it takes to build something new and different. Plus, we're on all the usual social media spaces, so find, like and subscribe, as they say.

So that’s what we’re trying to do here: sort the hyperbole from the fact. And we look forward to hanging out with you, arguing about stuff and finding out if eating dark chocolate will indeed make you live longer.