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Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

By Simon Spichak

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.

China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging

By Victor Tangermann

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.

Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The fallout from the train derailment and subsequent chemical spill and burn in East Palestine, Ohio continues apace with new reports of illnesses.

Locals Near Ohio Toxic Train Crash Say They’re Experiencing Weird Symptoms

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "NoFap" movement encourages (mostly) men to stop watching porn and masturbating — but it may be doing more harm than good.

The “NoFap” Movement May Be Causing Mental Health Problems and ED, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lawyer of a 24-year-old woman, who is eight months pregnant and currently in jail, is alleging that his client's fetus is being illegally detained.

Pregnant Woman in Jail Argues That If Her Fetus Is a Person, It’s Being Illegally Detained

By Victor Tangermann

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story.

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

By Jon Christian

The residents include both those in the town itself and even those living outside the evacuation area, with ailments affecting babies, pets, and livestock.

Residents Near Train Disaster Report Dying Animals, Sicknesses, Despite Officials Saying It’s Safe

By Frank Landymore

Using stem cells to grow minitiarized intestinal tissue called organoids, the researchers recreated a human immune response inside mice.

Scientists Grew Tiny, Partially Functional Human Intestines Inside Mice

By Frank Landymore

Hot tubs are, according to scientists, exactly as gross as you've always been warned — and in fact may be even grosser than you could imagine.

Hot Tubs Are Filled With Things Too Horrifying to Mention, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.

Elon Musk Responds to Health Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.

Global Warming Is Priming Deadly Fungi to Invade Our Warm Bodies

By Frank Landymore

Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences.

New Law Would Let Prisoners Donate Their Organs to Get Out Early

By Victor Tangermann

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.

Eccentric Wealthy Guy Spends $2 Million Per Year Staving Off Aging

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Carb-lovers, today's your lucky day — an Australian food scientist has pretty expertly shot down criticisms that claim pasta is an unhealthy food.

Rejoice! Food Scientist Says Pasta Is Way Healthier Than You’d Think

By Noor Al-Sibai

CRISPR, like many other powerful and complex tools, has… a bit of a PR problem. Is that holding it back from broader integration into health therapies?

This CRISPR Researcher Says Gene Editing Isn’t Playing God

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in China have successfully been able to restore normal erections in pigs with injured penises by way of bionic tissue transplant.

Biotech Penile Implants Let Pigs Get Erections Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a spine-tingling bit of fictional horror, a pair of X-ray technicians discover that their patient has no skeleton — and secrets even scarier, too.

In Horrifying Short Story, X-Ray Discovers Patient Has No Skeleton

By Noor Al-Sibai

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed into cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football. According to some reports, the league wanted to play on.

NFL Accused of Trying to Continue Game After Player Suffered Cardiac Arrest on Field

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeremy Renner in “Critical But Stable Condition” Following Gruesome Accident

Jeremy Renner in “Critical But Stable Condition” Following Gruesome Accident

By Noor Al-Sibai

A form of cosmetic surgery called buccal fat removal that's lighting up social media will give you those sexy, sunken cheeks, but at a troubling cost.

Expert Warns of Grim Consequences of New Cosmetic Surgery Trend

By Frank Landymore

New Zealand's parliament has passed new legislation, prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products to anybody born after 2008.

New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008

By Victor Tangermann

A team of bioengineers have created a "vagina on a chip" made from donated vaginal cells to mimic key features of the vaginal microbiome, The New York Times reports.

Scientists Have Created a “Vagina on a Chip”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers may have finally figured out why people are far more likely to get colds and the flu when temperatures drop during the winter.

Scientists May Have Finally Discovered Why People Get Sick in the Winter

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford University is circling the wagons around its president after student journalists uncovered serious allegations of scientific misconduct.

Student Journalists Expose Claims of Scientific Misconduct Against Stanford’s President

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brian "Liver King" Johnson, a caveman bodybuilder who has risen to fame online for eating raw animal liver on Instagram, has been accused of using steroids.

Raw Liver Eating Bodybuilder Accused of Injecting Himself With $11,000 Worth of Steroids Every Month

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in China claim to have genetically modified tobacco plants to be able to produce cocaine — but don't get too excited just yet, kids.

Scientists Gene Hack Random Plant to Grow Cocaine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A couple in Portland recently welcomed their twin son and daughter that were born from donated embryos that were frozen 30 years ago in 1992.

Twins Born From Donated Embryos That Were Frozen in 1992

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozempic, the viral TikTok weight loss drug, is so popular that its creator has declared a shortage — wreaking havoc on the lives of actual diabetics.

So Many People Are Using a Diabetes Drug for Weight Loss That Actual Diabetics Are Having Trouble Getting It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jay Weinberg, the drummer of Slipknot, one of the biggest metal bands in the world, cautions his fans to wear earplugs to shows to protecting their hearing.

Slipknot Drummer Warns of Hearing Damage From Loud Music

By Frank Landymore

You go to the gym, you pick things up. But maybe, as the second half of the famous quote goes, the focus should really be on putting them down.

Scientists Find That Lifting Weights Offers No Benefit Over Simply Lowering Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NeuroRestore scientists say they've identified the crucial neurons that are essential in helping a patient with paralysis recover their ability to walk.

Implant Lets Nine People With Spinal Paralysis Walk Again, and Scientists Think They Know Why

By Frank Landymore

Surgery had to quickly be performed to remove an unexploded shell lodged in a Russian soldier's chest with no guarantee it wouldn't detonate at any moment.

Unexploded Shell Removed From Soldier’s Chest by Surgeons Wearing Body Armor

By Frank Landymore

A Wisconsin hospice nurse and taxidermist is facing jail time after allegedly cutting off a dying 62-year-old man's frostbitten foot without permission.

Taxidermist Nurse Accused of Cutting Off Dying Man’s Foot Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ex-child star and pop singer Aaron Carter was only 34 when he died last weekend — and now, newly-released details suggest that he may have overdosed.

Coroner Defers Naming Aaron Carter Cause of Death Until Toxicology Report

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in the UK have injected lab-grown blood into humans for the first time, the BBC reports, a potentially game-changing technology.

First Ever Humans Injected With Synthetic, Lab-Grown Blood

By Victor Tangermann

Videos show what appear to be workers at Foxconn's plant in China jumping a fence to reportedly escape the country's strict zero-COVID policies.

Chinese Workers Jump Fence After Being Locked Inside World’s Largest iPhone Factory

By Victor Tangermann

Turning back the clock on aging may be attainable via a controversial method known as "reprogramming." But other experts in the field are skeptical.

Startup Says It’s Honing in on a Way to Reverse Aging

By Frank Landymore

Single life can be amazing — and scientists may have just discovered exactly why that is. Spoiler alert? It has a lot to do with you-time.

Scientists Say They Found the Most Awesome Thing About Being Single

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Israeli biotech company BioHarvest claims to have grown a powerful THC substance inside a bioreactor that is 12 times more potent.

Scientists Grow Superpowered THC Substance Inside Bioreactors

By Victor Tangermann

In the next year, Pfizer plans to nearly quadruple the per-dose price of their COVID-19 vaccine, jacking costs from $20 to $30 per shot to $110 to $130.

Pfizer’s Jacking Up the COVID Vaccine Cost to 10,000 Percent Its Production Cost

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On Tuesday, the feds took their first legal action against six e-cigarette companies, all of which have been accused of selling vaping products illegally.

Feds Cracking Down on Vaping Companies for “Breaking the Law”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Back in 2009, pro-life absolutist Herschel Walker allegedly paid for his girlfriend to get an abortion — even though he backs "no exception" abortion bans.

Rabidly Anti-Abortion Politician Reportedly Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You might want to set aside your lunch if you're going to watch this video of nearly two dozen crusty contact lenses being extracted from an eye.

Alarming Video Shows Doctor Removing 23 Contact Lenses From Patient’s Eye

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered that bacteria and fungi can join forces to form assemblages of "superorganisms" that can "walk" across your teeth.

Researchers Say Microbes Assemble Into “Superorganisms” That Crawl Around Your Teeth

By Frank Landymore

According to the NYT, Elon Musk likes to pass around a chart, which explains why MDMA and magic mushrooms are a healthier choice than alcohol.

Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Telling Friends About Benefits of Shrooms and MDMA

By Victor Tangermann

A 14-year-old girl in Arizona was recently denied a refill of the autoimmune disease-managing drug methotrexate, even though she wasn't pregnant.

Arizona Teen Refused Arthritis Meds Due to Post-Roe Abortion Bans

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine.

Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Live experimentation, some of it allegedly inhumane, on 1,027 animals reportedly led to the deaths of 329 dogs, 31 pigs, and 661 rabbits and rodents.

Dr. Oz Accused of Killing Hundreds of Dogs, Puppies, Bunnies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

STI rates in the US are alarming high, and top public health experts are sounding the alarms — but what, exactly, is the answer here?

The CDC Is Begging Americans to Protect Themselves From STIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A social media trend where people cook chicken that's been marinated in NyQuil has caused the FDA to step in and say "stop."

FDA Warns Americans to Stop Cooking Chicken in NyQuil

By Frank Landymore

For President Biden to so carelessly contradict his own administration's messaging is as confusing to the American people as it is dangerous.

Biden Really Screwed Up When He Said the “Pandemic Is Over”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This isn't a sympathy case for Harvey Weinstein. Bad guy. But his dental ordeal and the pleas he's made for proper care are emblematic of a bigger issue.

Harvey Weinstein’s Rotting Teeth Reveal a Lot About Prison Healthcare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famous French director Jean-Luc Godard decided to end his life this week via the controversial, yet legal, option of assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Famed Director Dies by Assisted Suicide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.

Concern Grows Around Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Period-Tracking App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new promising way to treat balding, a condition experienced by millions.

Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness

By Victor Tangermann

It's official: Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has passed away at the age of 96. And we have no idea why.

Nobody Is Sure What Queen Elizabeth II Died From

By Victor Tangermann

According to officials at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II, the second longest reigning monarch in history, is not doing well.

Queen Elizabeth II Is Reportedly Very Sick

By Victor Tangermann

In a resurfaced audio clip, television personality and Pennsylvania senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz says that thinks that some incest is fine, actually.

Audio Surfaces of Dr. Oz Saying Some Incest Is Okay, and Also His Daughters Don’t Like How He Smells

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from Vice, many Americans are turning to illegal, unregulated online pharmacies in order to access birth control and contraception.

Illegal Online Pharmacies for Contraceptives are Booming in Post-Roe America

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Drought-stricken California soil has, over the course of several years, been slowly releasing a meningitis-causing fungus into the air.

Climate Change Releasing Horrid Disease-Causing Fungus from California Soil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The American Heart Association released a new report that details early symptoms of heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.

New Report Lists Early Warning Signs of Heart Failure

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Pennsylvania vegetable wars between Dr. Oz and John Fetterman have reached a crescendo — but was what the Oz campaign said about Fetterman's stoke true?

Dr. Oz’s Campaign Criticized for Making Fun of Opponent’s Stroke

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Louisiana woman has been denied abortion access, despite the fact that the fetus, diagnosed with acrania, has no skull and will die shortly after birth.

Brutal Abortion Law Forces Woman to Carry Fetus That Will Definitely Die After Birth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré