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Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is under investigation by two attorneys general for his new company, Druglike, which he says isn't a pharmaceutical company.

Martin Shkreli’s Crypto Startup Under Investigation by Two Separate Attorneys General

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nearly 20 years of Alzheimer's research could be undone after investigators uncover that a widely cited and influential paper may have used fabricated data.

Decades of Alzheimer’s Research Allegedly Based on Fabricated Data

By Frank Landymore

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WHO Declares World Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a damning report published yesterday, Reuters confirmed that carmaker Hyundai has been using child labor near its flagship factory in Montgomery, AL.

Hyundai Busted Using Child Labor in Alabama

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Florida authorities say the Giant African Land Snail carries rat lungworm, a deadly parasite that causes meningitis. Around 2,000 snails have been found.

Giant Snails Invading Florida Carrying Dangerous Parasite, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with their bear serum injection. Bears hibernate without losing muscle, unlike humans.

Scientists Supercharge Human Muscle Cells By Injecting Them With “Bear Serum”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

English officials say thousands of peoeple could die in this week's heatwave. Temperatures could hit 104 degrees and caused a emergency heat red alert.

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A suit filed against Mars Inc, on Thursday claims the company doesn't inform customers that Skittles contains titanium dioxide, which could be toxic.

Please No! Lawsuit Claims Toxic Ingredient in Delicious Skittles

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Less than 24 hours after her death, New York City’s chief medical examiner completed Ivana Trump's autopsy and said she died from blunt force trauma.

Medical Examiner Releases Details About Death of Ivana Trump

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Doctors published a study in the European Heart Journal that found people who add salt to their food are more likely to die a premature death.

Salting Your Food Can Kill You Faster, Doctors Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A study published Monday found that cannabis consumers were 22 percent more likely to end up in the ER or be hospitalized than those who didn’t smoke weed.

Study Finds That Weed Puts You at Higher Risk for Hospitalization

By Frank Landymore

A new study linked an inability to balance unsupported on one leg to a nearly-doubled risk of death within the next decade.

If You Can’t Stand on One Foot for Ten Seconds, Doctors Have Bad News

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors researching an experimental cancer treatment were shocked when every single patient in the small trial went into remission.

Scientists Intrigued by Treatment That Put Every Single Patient’s Cancer Into Remission

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Russian government is clearly fed up with speculation about the state of often-shirtless president Vladimir Putin's health.

Russia Says That Vladimir Putin Definitely Does NOT Have a Terminal Illness, Thank You Very Much!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scienists say pugs are such an unhealthy dog breed they can barely be considered dogs. They suffer with breathing, bone and brain health problems.

Pugs Are So Grotesque They Can Barely Be Considered Dogs, Experts Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Science doesn't know exactly how depression works — and, as it turns out, we might not really know whether antidepressants really work, either.

Health & Medicine

New Study Claims That Antidepressants Don’t Lead to Better Quality of Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of MIT scientists behind the biotech firm Frequency Therapeutics has developed a new type of regenerative therapy that can reverse hearing loss.

MIT Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Treatment That Reverses Hearing Loss

By Victor Tangermann

A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering used special ultrasound to lower blood sugar in patients with diabetes as insulin prices soar.

Scientists Say They Might Have Found a Way to Treat Diabetes Without Insulin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Canadian doctors will decide how to implement medical assistance in dying, or MAID, for patients with severe mental illness, depression and PTSD by 2023.

Health & Medicine

Canadian Doctors Grapple With 2023 Plan to Let Mentally Ill Patients End Their Lives

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists have created a bizarre magnetic slime that can be remotely controlled via a magnetic field, New Scientist reports.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create Robot to Put Inside Your Body That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

Die Hard actor Bruce Willis been diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive condition that's affecting his ability to speak and work.

Bruce Willis Is Halting His Movie Career Due to Aphasia. Here’s What That Means

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that he's caught COVID — again, that is, because he already caught it, way back in 2020.

Elon Musk Says He Has COVID Again

By Jon Christian

Could a powerful slap actually kill a person, as was suggested after Will Smith's Oscars altercation with Chris Rock? Let's examine the science.

Can You Die From Getting Slapped Too Hard?

By Jon Christian

For the first time ever, a fully paralyzed ALS patient has used a brain implant to communicate — and his pioneering requests were delightful.

Completely Paralyzed Patient Gets Brain Implant, Asks For Beer And Heavy Metal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists took a look at blood samples from 22 healthy, adult donors and discovered microplastic particles in 17 of them.

Oh Great: Scientists Are Finding Microplastics in Human Blood Now

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UM) developed the compound — dubbed GPHR-529 — as a form of non-hormonal male birth control.

Male Birth Control Pills Might Start Human Trials This Year

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study found that a small amount of light can impact your cardiovascular function while you sleep and increase insulin resistance when you wake up.

If There’s Any Light in Your Room When You Sleep, This Research Might Worry You

By Tony Ho Tran

Authorities in Shanghai and Shenzhen have imposed restrictions on travel for its residents after daily cases in the country spiked in the past week.

Haven’t We Suffered Enough? There’s a New COVID Outbreak in China

By Tony Ho Tran

US-based Kernel released a piece of wearable helmet tech called the Kernel Flow that uses near-infrared light to scan your brain with lasers.

Startup Builds Brain-Reading Helmet That Scans Your Brain in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

David Bennet Sr. passed away at the University of Maryland Medical Center after he received an experimental pig heart transplant in January.

Man Who Received Experimental Pig Heart Transplant Dies

By Tony Ho Tran

Turns out drinking can cause worse side effects than a hangover, even when done lightly.

Just One Alcoholic Drink Per Day Appears to Shrink Your Brain, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The heads were slated to be used for medical research when they were pilfered sometime between last Wednesday and Thursday.

Someone Stole a Bunch of Human Heads from a Medical Truck

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.

Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists had the opportunity to study the brain waves of a dying person — and found an increase in activity associated with memory and dreams.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Recorded the Brain Activity of a Person as They Died, and the Results Are Astonishing

By Tony Ho Tran

Bill Gates told reporters risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced,” but that a future pandemic is a near certainty.

Bill Gates Says Yet Another Pandemic Is Coming

By Lonnie Lee Hood

There are apparently some drug researchers who hate fun and think that microdosing is fake.

Microdosing Acid Doesn’t Have Any Benefits, Say Scientists With No Sense of Fun

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.

Prosthetics and Devices

Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They’re Obsolete

By Tony Ho Tran

Neuralink has responded via blog post to say that yes, they have euthanized a few monkeys during the brain experiments.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Says 21 Percent of Its Monkeys Died Because of Brain Implant Issues

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have discovered that nearly 33 percent of all Americans have detectable amounts of a weed-killing chemical in their bodies.

Weed-Killing Chemical Used in Deadly Agent Orange Toxin Found in 1 in 3 Americans

By Tony Ho Tran

Dr. Phil Accused of Withholding Guest’s Medication to Make Her Seem “Crazy”

Health & Medicine

Dr. Phil Accused of Withholding Guest’s Medication to Make Her Seem “Crazy”

By Tony Ho Tran

An animal rights advocacy group accuses Neuralink and Elon Musk specifically of facilitating and funding the torture and mutilation of monkeys.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Accused of Abusing Brain-Hacked Monkeys

By Tony Ho Tran

An international team of researchers have developed the synthetic human tooth enamel that they say outperforms the real thing.

Scientists Create Synthetic Tooth Enamel That’s Stronger Than Real Teeth

By Tony Ho Tran

A study last week in the Scandanavian Journal of Medicine & Science In Sports found that three seconds of lifting increases muscle strength and thickness.

Scientists Find That Lifting Weights for Just Three Seconds Is Quite Good for You

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.

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Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China is building a massive system of barriers along its 3,000 mile southern border with the supposed goal of keeping COVID-19 at bay.

China Is Building a Huge New Wall to Allegedly Keep COVID Out

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in Norway have discovered evidence of microplastic in newborn babies. They believe it's impossible to stop kids from ingesting plastic.

Researchers Find Microplastics Inside Newborn Babies

By Tony Ho Tran

An NYPD cop is under investigation for potentially taking part in a fake vaccine card scheme that netted him and his spouse more than a million dollars.

NYPD Cop Investigated for $1.5 Million Scheme to Sell Fake Vaccine Cards

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in Suzhou, China claim to have created an AI system that can monitor and care for embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb.

Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb

By Tony Ho Tran

He posted a video on his Instagram on Sunday wherein he addressed recent criticism that his show has spread COVID misinformation.

Joe Rogan Issues Absolutely Terrible Apology for COVID Misinfo

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers and scientists recently expressed their horror at Musk's goal to connect human brains to computer chips just as Neuralink enters human trials.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Express Concern at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

By Tony Ho Tran

Manuel Zahn and Armaghan Ahmad Khan published research on their 3D camera and haptic feedback sleeve that will help people who are blind or have low vision.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Device Lets People Who Are Blind “See” in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A 45-year-old American man landed himself in the hospital after his partner accidentally injected his penis with insulation foam to cure his impotance.

Man Horribly Injures Penis After Injecting It with Insulation Foam

By Tony Ho Tran

A study published in Nature found that astronaut's bodies are destroying their own blood through hemolysis, causing space anemia after returning to Earth.

Space Is Wreaking Havoc on Astronauts’ Blood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The American Cancer Society revealed on Wednesday that overall cancer death rates dropped 32 percent from its peak in 1991 to 2019.

Good News: Cancer Deaths Have Dramatically Fallen in the Past 30 Years

By Tony Ho Tran

Anti-Vaxxers Are Drinking Human Urine for Some Disgusting Reason

Anti-Vaxxers Are Drinking Human Urine for Some Disgusting Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

Big name companies such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Cisco have begun offering weeks- to months-long sabbaticals to long-time employees.

Health & Medicine

Chill Employers Are Letting Burned Out Employees Take Sabbaticals

By Tony Ho Tran

DMT is joining the ranks of party drugs including LSD, MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin mushrooms as a promising mental health treatment.

Scientists Are Now Testing Medical DMT on Human Subjects

By Tony Ho Tran

Experts are saying that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is "the most-explosive and the fastest-spreading virus in history."

Omicron Is the “Fastest Spreading Virus In History,” Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Conspiracy theorists began to baselessly spread false rumors that Betty White received her COVID-19 booster on December 28, just three days before she died

Anti-Vax Idiots Are Saying Betty White Died Because of COVID Boosters

By Tony Ho Tran

The CDC updated its COVID-19 guidelines, shortening the isolation timeline for those who contract the virus to just five days.

Health Experts Slam CDC After It Shortened COVID Isolation Guidelines

By Tony Ho Tran

Cases of the COVID-19 are surging across the globe as the highly transmissible Omicron variant becomes the most dominant strain of the virus.

Omicron Continues to Wreak Havoc on Flights, Hospitals, and Worst of All, BTS

By Tony Ho Tran

She may look like a pre-teen, but Shauna Rae is legally old enough to drink — and soon, the world will know her story, or at least the TLC version of it.

The Fascinating Saga of the 22-Year-Old Woman Trapped in Body of 8-Year-Old

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like Trump has finally gone too far for his most ardent supporters — by taking the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine booster.

Trump Gets Booed by His Own Fans When He Admits He Got Booster Shot

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FDA permenantly lifted a rule that requires patients to meet in person to get abortion pills and allow them to receive them by mail instead.

FDA Says That Abortion Pills Can Be Sent by Mail

By Tony Ho Tran