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New research suggests that gender-affirming hormone therapy is directly connected to lower rates of depression and suicide attempts in transgender youths.

Health & Medicine

Study Finds That Trans Youth Who Get Gender-Affirming Hormones Are Less Depressed

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have discovered that humans experience a “creative sweet spot” in the moments right before we fall asleep that can help solve tough problems.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Can Solve Hard Problems Moments Before Falling Asleep, Study Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists have discovered a molecular signal that can help them create a pill that replicates the effects of exercise without the actual exercise.

Researchers Say Newly-Discovered Particle Could Help Create “Exercise in a Pill”

By Tony Ho Tran

New Zealand to Completely Ban Tobacco for Anyone Born After 2008

New Zealand to Completely Ban Tobacco for Anyone Born After 2008

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers in Kyoto, Japan have created a mask that glows under a UV light when exposed to the coronavirus.

Scientists Invent New Mask That Glows When Exposed to Coronavirus

By Tony Ho Tran

A woman was forced to give birth inside a luxury Tesla that was stuck in standstill New York City traffic.

Woman Gives Birth in Tesla While Stuck in NYC Traffic Hell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Put Brain Chips in Humans Next Year

By Tony Ho Tran

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco.

Prosthetics and Devices

Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland

By Tony Ho Tran

A man in Italy used a fake arm to try and avoid getting a real COVID-19 vaccine. The man's arm seemed different, and a nurse realized it was rubber foam.

Antivaxxer Caught Using Fake Arm to Pretend to Get Vaccine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

South African officials announced that they detected a new COVID-19 variant — prompting the US to impose travel restrictions on several African nations.

The New COVID Variant Isn’t Just in South Africa, You Idiots

By Tony Ho Tran

Vice President Kamala Harris became the first woman to serve as acting president when President Joe Biden temporarily transferred power to her on Friday.

Kamala Harris Becomes First Acting Woman President While Biden Gets Colonoscopy

By Tony Ho Tran

COVID May Have Messed Up One Million Americans’ Sense of Smell

COVID May Have Messed Up One Million Americans’ Sense of Smell

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Royal Society B reveals that grandmothers typically have an instinctual and neurological urge to care for their grandchildren.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Scan Grandmas’ Brains, Confirm They REALLY Love Their Grandchildren

By Tony Ho Tran

J.M Stibel, a brain scientist, has discovered evidence that the size of human brains have greatly decreased in the past 50,000 years.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Are Shrinking, Scientist Warns

By Tony Ho Tran

This just in: you're not going to die if you eat the stickers that come on your grocery store fruits and veggies!

Rejoice! The New York Times Says It’s Fine to Eat the Stickers on Vegetables

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers might have developed an incredibly promising way to treat — and possibly vaccinate against — Alzheimer’s disease.

Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment Restores Lost Memories in Mice

By Tony Ho Tran

A gruesome new study finds that not only are pregnant women in the United States more likely to die by homicide than maternal illness, but that they are most likely to be killed by their partners.

Pregnant American Women More Likely to Be Killed By Their Partners than by Illness

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors discovered a Massachusetts man who had tapeworms burrowed into his brain after ingesting feces-contaminated food years before.

Doctors Alarmed to Discover Tapeworm Inside Man’s Brain

By Tony Ho Tran

Kaelyn Franco, a 23-year-old Masschussets woman, developed a serious muscle condition called rhabdomyolysis after going to her spin class on September 15.

Woman Almost Loses Her Leg After High-Intensity Spin Class

By Tony Ho Tran

In spite of running a healthtech company, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes apparently didn't understand how prostates work.

Prosthetics and Devices

We’re Losing It at Elizabeth Holmes’ Excuse for Why Theranos Results Made No Sense

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stanford scientists have developed a brain implant that allows a man with paralyzed hands to "type" up to 90 words per minute.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text

By Tony Ho Tran

Daniel Gatinel, a French ophthalmologist, took an MRI of a healthy patient rubbing their eyes to see if it might cause certain eye conditions.

Wanna Be Completely Horrified? Here’s an MRI of What Happens When You Rub Your Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

Texas Senator Ted Cruz decided to take aim at none other than beloved children's TV character Big Bird for getting the COVID vaccine.

Ted Cruz Furious at Children’s TV Character After Big Bird Promotes COVID Vaccine

By Tony Ho Tran

A Boston doctor was fined for completely missing a surgery he was scheduled to perform after he ate lunch in his car and fell asleep.

Doctor Fined for Missing Surgery After He Ate Lunch in His Car, Fell Asleep

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the Stanford University say that they were able to treat depression in their patients by stimulating their brains with magnets.

Prosthetics and Devices

Stanford Scientists Say Brain Magnets Can Relieve Depression

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts.

Air Pollution May Be Lowering Sperm Counts, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

The researchers discovered that there was a positive correlation between the sale of alcohol with the number of patients on liver transplant waiting lists.

We Drank So Much During the Pandemic that Liver Transplants Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran

New research indicates that many items found in fast food throughout the US contain hormone-disrupting chemicals found in plastic.

Fast Food Is Filled With Chemicals That Disrupt Hormones, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists in Spain have successfully created an implant that allowed a blind patient to see by directly stimulating her brain’s visual cortex.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Lets Blind Patient See Without Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig to a human — and found that the organ functioned normally.

Doctors Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney to a Human for First Time Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

New Statesman makes the case that a handful of ventures are actually starting to hone in on tech that could provide significant life extension.

Researcher Predicts Anti-Aging Drug “by the Time It’s Relevant for Me”

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists believe that there are people out there who are genetically immune to COVID-19, and they want to study them for treatments.

Scientists Believe There Are People Genetically Immune To COVID

By Tony Ho Tran

More Cops Have Died from COVID-19 than Guns Since Start of Pandemic

More Cops Have Died from COVID-19 than Guns Since Start of Pandemic

By Tony Ho Tran

WHO Honors Woman Whose Cells Were Taken Without Consent for Medical Research

WHO Honors Woman Whose Cells Were Taken Without Consent for Medical Research

By Tony Ho Tran

The FDA just endorsed Vuse e-cigarettes, the first vaping products that the regulatory agency has approved, because it says they're safer than cigarettes.

The FDA Just Officially Endorsed Vaping

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have found that having taken psychedelics at any point in people's life seems to be correlated with a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.

LSD and Shrooms Linked to Lower Heart Disease and Diabetes Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities are about to test blood samples from Wuhan to investigate where and when the first COVID-19 outbreaks began.

Chinese Authorities Are Testing Thousands of Blood Samples From Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic exoskeleton allows people with amputated legs to walk naturally by giving them a small boost as they take steps forward.

Health & Medicine

Watch a Robot Exoskeleton Help People Without Legs Walk Upright

By Dan Robitzski

Thank the Great Pumpkin! Fauci Says Trick-or-Treating Is Fine This Year

Thank the Great Pumpkin! Fauci Says Trick-or-Treating Is Fine This Year

By Tony Ho Tran

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.

Hospital Says It Won’t Do Organ Transplants on Unvaccinated People

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have made a surprising discovery that could redefine how we understand aging, potentially paving new ways to prevent balding.

New Genetic Discovery Could Finally Explain Balding

By Victor Tangermann

A man recently showed up to the hospital to have over two pounds of metal nails, screws, and other miscellanea removed from his stomach.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Alarmed by Man Who Quit Drinking and Started Swallowing Metal Nails and Screws

By Dan Robitzski

A woman's newborn baby died nine months after preventable complications at birth that hospital staff missed due to a ransomware hack.

Hackers Attacked a Hospital and Allegedly Killed a Newborn Baby

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study on over 1.1 million blood samples found that half of American kids under the age of 6 could have lead in their blood.

Half of American Kids Have Lead in Their Blood, Doctors Say

By Dan Robitzski

Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.

COVID Patients Tell Doctor Coronavirus Is Fake, Then All Die

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are developing a pill they say might allow people to treat their COVID-19 while limiting its transmission to others.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Say They’re Almost Ready With a Pill to Treat COVID

By Tony Ho Tran

Canadian police are searching for a man they say punched a female nurse in the face after she gave his wife the COVID-19 vaccine without his permission.

Man Punches Nurse for Giving His Wife the COVID Vaccine “Without His Consent”

By Tony Ho Tran

A new app called Phobys uses augmented reality to surround arachnophobic people with spiders as a form of virtual exposure therapy.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Use AR to Make Arachnophobes See Huge Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

A new mouse study seems to have determined how beta-amyloid, a toxic compound linked to Alzheimer's disease, starts to accumulate in the brain.

Scientists May Have Discovered the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dan Robitzski

"Thor" actor Chris Hemsworth utilizes a painful and weird method to get his arms looking huge: blood-flow restriction workouts.

Chris Hemsworth Used a Grotesque Hack to Get Swole Enough to Play Thor

By Tony Ho Tran

Fox News has adopted a hardline policy in the battle against the pandemic by requiring its employees to be vaccinated or take a daily COVID-19 test.

In Bizarre Twist, White House Praises Fox News for Strict COVID Policies

By Tony Ho Tran

Four Patients Die After Experimental Gene Therapy

Health & Medicine

Four Patients Die After Experimental Gene Therapy

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers studying weight gain believe global obesity trends might be more driven by the types of food you eat rather than how much food you eat.

Study: Weight Gain Caused by Eating Specific Foods, Not Eating Too Much

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists from Brown University have created tiny microchips designed to be scattered throughout the brain’s surface in order to collect neural data.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Propose Sprinkling Hundreds of Chips Into Human Brain

By Tony Ho Tran

Journals retracted two papers that they say failed to meet ethical standards because they were based on blood samples taken from China's Uyghur population.

Genetics Papers Retracted Over Human Experimentation Scandal

By Dan Robitzski

A man's nose ran for nine months before he realized he was leaking brain fluid after a particularly aggressive nasal swab COVID test.

COVID Test Made Man’s Head Leak Cerebrospinal Fluid for Nine Months

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.

Inmates Treated With Ivermectin Without Their Knowledge

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.

Scientist Warns About Alien Viruses From Other Planets

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of girls and young women are developing Tourette's-like tics just from watching videos of them on TikTok.

Doctors Say Social Media May Be Giving Young People Strange Tics

By Dan Robitzski

New research demonstrates a way to trick an older person's immune system into becoming as robust and active as it was in their youth.

Doctors Claim to Have Discovered How to Reverse Cell Aging

By Dan Robitzski

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A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction

By Dan Robitzski

Psychology professor Irwin Bernstein, 88, announced his sudden "retirement" after one of his students arrived to class unmasked.

Professor Quits Job on the Spot When Student Refuses to Wear Mask

By Tony Ho Tran

Governor Gavin Newsom requested permission from the federal government to use tax money via Medicaid to pay people with addictions to stay sober.

California May Pay People With Addiction to Stay Sober

By Tony Ho Tran

the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.

Researchers Are About to Infect Humans With Home-Grown COVID Strain

By Dan Robitzski