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Zoom fatigue, or feeling exhausted from having your camera on at work, is a real phenomenon that should be taken seriously, according to new research.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Demonstrate That Yes, Video Call Meetings Are Exhausting

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok is full of videos attempting a dangerouns "milk crate challenge," and doctors are pleading with them to knock it off.

Doctors Warn That “Milk Crate Challenge” Is Causing Grievous Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey revealed shockingly high rates of substance use disorders, primarily for alcohol and marijuana, among young adults with ADHD.

Health & Medicine

Study: One in Two Young Adults With ADHD Also Had a Substance Use Disorder

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that drinking too little water makes the body undergo changes that raise the risk of heart failure, but staying hydrated helps prevent it.

Study: Drinking Water Prevents Heart Failure

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus pandemic is once again killing over 1,000 people in the United States every single day, a grim reminder that the pandemic is still raging.

COVID Is Once Again Killing More Than 1,000 Americans Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

The Mississippi Department of Health released a health alert on Friday warning people not to take an anti-parastic drug meant for cows to prevent COVID.

FDA: Don’t Take Animal Livestock Drugs to Fight COVID-19, You Idiots

By Tony Ho Tran

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

Neuroscience and Brain

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.

Why You Might Want an mRNA Booster Shot, In One Simple Graphic

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccine misinformation on TikTok is spreading like, well, something viral.

How Are These Horrible Vaccine TikToks Fooling So Many People?

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.

Pharmacist Busted for Selling Real COVID Vaccine Cards to Anti-Vaxxers

By Dan Robitzski

A Serbian hermit who lives in a cave emerged to discover a pandemic ravaging the world. As soon as a vaccine became available, he got the jab.

Hermit Who Lives In Literal Cave Learns About Pandemic, Gets Vaccinated

By Tony Ho Tran

Harvard researchers have discovered a connection between exposure to wildfire smoke with roughly 20,000 infections and 750 deaths due to COVID-19.

Wildfire Smoke Is Apparently Making COVID Worse

By Tony Ho Tran

A medical device for heart failure called the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device likely contributed to thousands of deaths, and the FDA didn't step in.

Prosthetics and Devices

Defective Heart Pump Appears Have Killed Thousands of Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Looking at skewed historical birth records, experts warn that millions more boys than girls will be born in the coming decades.

Scientists Warn That Way Too Many Men Are Being Born

By Dan Robitzski

The sharp increase of screen time during the pandemic has been linked to a huge spike in myopia, also known as near-sightedness, among kids.

Screen Use Linked to Failing Eyesight in Children

By Dan Robitzski

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.

Pfizer and Moderna Hike the Price of COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

A baby was born in Israel with a partially developed human embryo — possibly the makings of an absorbed twin — inside of her stomach.

A Baby Was Born With Her “Parasitic” Twin Inside Her Stomach

By Dan Robitzski

The neurotech company Synchron got FDA approval to start testing its brain implant in human volunteers, beating Neuralink and other rivals to the punch.

Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neuralink Rival Wins Race for Approval To Test Brain Implant in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental form of male birth control involves using magnets to heat up nanoparticles inside the testes to prevent sperm formation.

Experimental Male Birth Control Is Magnets That Heat Up Your Testicles

By Dan Robitzski

A lab worker in France was diagnosed with a deadly brain disease caused by the exact kind of proteins that her lab studied.

Suspicions Grow That Worker Caught Deadly Brain Disease at Lab

By Dan Robitzski

At the request of his son, a French engineer designed a robotic exoskeleton that could help his son get around without using his wheelchair.

Health & Medicine

Engineer Builds Voice-Controlled Exoskeleton So His Son Could Walk

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook recalled "About 4 million" Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets after thousands of reports of face hives and rashes emerged.

Facebook’s Oculus Gave Thousands of Customers Face Rashes and Hives

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.

Preliminary Research Explains Why the Delta Variant Is So Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

A new study shows that robotic exoskeletons may not be as beneficial as initially thought due to unnecessary strain they place on wearers' brains.

Prosthetics and Devices

Exoskeletons Are Causing Problems With Wearers’ Brains, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found a startling link between heavy coffee drinking and an increased risk of dementia and other brain diseases.

Neuroscience and Brain

Excessive Coffee Drinking Linked to Dementia

By Dan Robitzski

New research found high levels of PFAS, a class of plastics used in a wide variety of products, accumulating in new moms' breast milk.

Scientists Find Alarming Chemicals in Mothers’ Breast Milk

By Dan Robitzski

A veterinarian in China caught and died from an extremely rare and deadly "Monkey B" virus that almost never infects humans.

Extremely Rare Monkey Virus Kills Veterinarian in China

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists were able to lump every kind of cancer out there into two categories based on whether they express a single protein.

Doctors Say They Found a Protein Linking All Cancers

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural implant was able to decode a paralyzed man's thoughts and turn them into words written on a screen, granting him the ability to communicate.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain-Reading Tech Turned a Paralyzed Man’s Thoughts Into Words

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a nanobot swarm that can read and transmit your brain activity, allowing them to wirelessly diagnose disease or analyze neural signals.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Create Injectable Swarm of Brain Reading Nanosensors

By Dan Robitzski

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.

Israel Begins Administering World’s First COVID Booster Shots

By Dan Robitzski

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.

WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.

There’s Something Fishy About the Teletubbies’ Vaccination Cards

By Dan Robitzski

A growing chunk of the planet has been reaching temperatures and humidities high enough to kill people who are otherwise perfectly healthy.

Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study identified a long list of medical conditions that appear to be linked to cases of adult ADHD, and experts say it may help reshape treatment.

Adult ADHD Is Linked to a Ton of Serious Diseases

By Dan Robitzski

Surges in alcohol consumption during the early pandemic seem to be growing rather than easing up, raising questions about what habits will persist on.

American Alcoholism Is Getting Worse

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.

Scammers Inject Thousands of People With Fake Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

On Thursday, the CDC tweeted out their warning to not swim if you’re experiencing the effects of diarrhea and other intestinal-related illnesses this summer.

CDC Warns Americans Not to Have Diarrhea in the Pool

By Tony Ho Tran

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it's investigating a rare but deadly bacterial infection in the United States.

CDC Warns of Outbreak of Deadly Bacteria

By Tony Ho Tran

The military announced plans to performance test a new anti-aging pill that it developed to keep soldiers healthy and operating at peak performance.

The US Military Will Test an Anti-Aging Pill Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA added the warning to two COVID vaccines, saying that there was a slight risk for myocarditis and pericarditis amongst vaccine recipients.

FDA Adds Heart Inflammation Warning to Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines

By Tony Ho Tran

The research labs around the world that handle the most dangerous pathogens have alarmingly bad biosecurity protocols in place.

Experts: Infectious Disease Labs Have Shockingly Terrible Security

By Dan Robitzski

We may never be able to debunk the undying hypothesis that the coronavirus somehow escaped from a lab because it's technically unfalsifiable.

The Lab Leak Theory Is a Tragic Hall of Mirrors That’ll Probably Never Have a Satisfying Answer

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.

Texas Hospital Fires Over 150 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer to make a coronavirus vaccine, is now injecting patients with a vaccine for cancer.

First Patient Injected With Cancer Vaccine in Phase II Trial

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a pee test that they say can diagnose brain cancer before it's too late to treat or remove the tumor.

Pee Test Could Diagnose Brain Cancer, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that there's no way to slow down the process of aging, even if modern medicine helps us live longer than before.

Study: Sorry, Aging Is Unstoppable, You Vain, Youth-Hungry Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

The UK decided to delay lifting its coronavirus restrictions by another four weeks as the delta variant continues to spread.

UK Delays Reopening Over Alarming Spread of Delta COVID Variant

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers developed a new artificial skin for prosthetic limbs or robots that actually forms bruises whenever it gets bonked or damaged.

Health & Medicine

Robot Skin Now Gets Bruised When Punched, Horrifyingly

By Dan Robitzski

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.

International Vaccine Program Still Struggling After Rich Countries Hoard Shots

By Dan Robitzski

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

By Dan Robitzski

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC released a study on Friday indicating that attempted suicides amongst teenaged girls rose sharply during the pandemic.

CDC Study: Teen Suicide Attempts Spiked During the Pandemic

By Tony Ho Tran

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.

RX and Medicine

Furious FDA Advisors Resign to Protest Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug That They Say Doesn’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

Royal Caribbean's first cruise after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns already has a coronavirus outbreak after two passengers tested positive.

The First Cruise Ship Since the Pandemic Already Has a COVID Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

In a new clinical trial, psilocybin seemed to perform just as well as a treatment for major depressive disorder as a conventional SSRI.

New Study: Psychedelic Mushrooms Are as Effective as Antidepressants

By Dan Robitzski

Only one-third of respondents to a survey said they'd take a pill that made them live forever, but more would consider it if they were younger.

Only One Third of US Adults Would Take an Immortality Pill

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

Scientists: The Pandemic Might Have Caused Two Flu Strains to Go Extinct

By Tony Ho Tran