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A gruesome study found that one kind of brain cell actually gets more active and starts to grow for hours after people die.

Neuroscience and Brain

After You Die, Some Cells in Your Brain Become More Active

By Dan Robitzski

Blasting mouse livers with ultrasound beams made the mice lose excess weight, potentially giving doctors a way to prevent diabetes.

Health & Medicine

Ultrasound Blasts Made Overfed Mice Lose Weight, and Scientists Say it Might Prevent Diabetes

By Dan Robitzski

A recent survey of human-made chemicals inside pregnant women's bodies found dozens of plastics and other compounds that scientists can't identify.

Scientists Detect Chemicals Inside Pregnant Women They Can’t Even Identify

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that they could use precise ultrasound to read neural activity and even predict behavior before it happens.

Neuroscience and Brain

Caltech Scientists Say They Can Read Human Brain With Ultrasound

By Dan Robitzski

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Scientists Link Eating This Common Baseball Stadium Food With Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Tons of Old People Are Smoking Weed — And Doctors Are Worried

Tons of Old People Are Smoking Weed — And Doctors Are Worried

By Tony Ho Tran

Generation X and especially millennials are aging shockingly poorly, according to a massive new study on health outcomes.

Millennials Are Aging Really Badly, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

BioNTech cofounder Ozlem Tureci says that the company is returning to its original goal of developing a vaccine against cancer.

COVID Vaccine Developer: Cancer Shots Are Next

By Dan Robitzski

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.

Neuroscience and Brain

DARPA Is Funding Nanoparticles That Permeate Brain to Read Neural Signals

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests that coronavirus vaccines might also serve as a treatment for persistent long-hauler symptoms.

Coronavirus Vaccines Seem to Treat Long-Hauler Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization investigators probing the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic finally seem to have some answers.

WHO Investigators Think They Found Where the Pandemic Really Began

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers grew a working tear gland in the lab that they say can help them study disease and perhaps someday might be used as a transplant.

Lab Grows Human Tear Glands That Can Actually Cry

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have managed to keep mice embryos alive inside an artificial womb for as long as day 12, half of the animal's gestation period.

Scientists Grew Mouse Embryos in an Artificial Womb

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer executives recently announced that they're looking into raising the price of the coroanvirus vaccine once the worst of the pandemic is over.

Pharma Execs Scheming About How to Make More Money Off COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found that walking speed seemed to help predict COVID disease severity and deaths, regardless of related factors like obesity.

Your Walking Speed Might Predict Whether COVID Kills You

By Dan Robitzski

The anti-masker woman who assaulted her Uber driver in that horrifying viral video turned herself in to the police and faces up to 20 years in prison.

Woman Faces Years in Prison For Coughing on Uber Driver

By Dan Robitzski

Medical residents are now under investigation for posting pictures of removed organs on Instagram as if they were game show hosts.

Doctors Investigated For Posting Surgically Removed Organs on Instagram

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists submitted a new cancer medication for the FDA's approval without having experimented on a single animal.

Scientists Create Cancer Drug Without Any Animal Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

By Dan Robitzski

A Kroger clinic in Virginia accidentally gave some people injections of air instead of the coronavirus vaccines they thought they were getting.

Vaccine Distribution Site Accidentally Gave Out Empty Shots

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian soccer player with an injury that left him with quadriplegia is learning to walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.

Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Soccer Player Walks Again Using Exoskeleton Suit

By Dan Robitzski

As the vaccine rollout continues, a smaller proportion of people who catch the coronavirus are being sent to the hospital.

COVID Hospitalizations Are Plummeting With Vaccine Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

A new proposed study will look into the anti-aging effects of Type 2 Diabetes drug metformin — and potentially give us a way to slow down aging for good.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Suspect This Drug Can Actually Delay Aging

By Tony Ho Tran

There are several major coronavirus variants spreading throughout the world. Here's what you should know about the most important ones.

Five Coronavirus Variants That You Should Know About

By Dan Robitzski

Given a choice, a surprising number of people prefer the convenience of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the increased effectiveness of the others.

People Are Obsessed With the Vaccine That Only Requires One Dose

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new survey, 69 percent of Americans either want or have at least partially received a coronavirus vaccine, signalling growing optimism.

69 Percent of Americans Want the COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.

Startup Creates Tiny Drill to Burrow Through Your Brain With Magnets

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are identifying patients who were simultaneously infected by multiple coronavirus variants, raising concerns about new mutations.

People Are Catching Two COVID Strains at the Same Time

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC updated its official recommendations for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Experts say it's actually a valuable resource.

CDC Updates Guidelines For Zombie Apocalypse

By Dan Robitzski

Experts expected a new baby boom during the COVID-19 era, but the birth rate dropped instead. Experts say that this is a growing crisis for the country.

Experts: The United States’ Dropping Birth Rate is Becoming a “Crisis”

By Dan Robitzski

President Biden announced that the US will likely have enough coronavirus vaccines to inoculate every adult in the country by the end of May.

White House Says US Will Have Enough Vaccine For All Adults by May

By Dan Robitzski

A study shows that the coronavirus can directly attack and kill heart cells, potentially settling a longstanding scientific debate.

Study: COVID-19 Can Kill Heart Cells

By Dan Robitzski

The Archdiocese of New Orleans just issued a dangerous statement calling the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine "morally compromised."

Catholic Archdiocese Calls COVID Vaccine “Morally Compromised”

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary data suggests that the coronavirus variant P.1 is capable of reinfecting people who already survived COVID-19.

New P.1 Strain Can Re-Infect People Who Already Caught COVID

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccination passports could allow immunized people to travel or re-enter society, but many people in already-vulnerable groups would be excluded.

Expert: Vaccination Passports Could Become a “Dystopian Nightmare”

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.

RX and Medicine

Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

A company Brain Scientific is developing an "e-tattoo" that can be injected under the skin in epilepsy patients and scan their brains for looming seizures.

Prosthetics and Devices

This Startup Wants to Tattoo Brain-Reading Electrodes on Your Skull

By Dan Robitzski

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.

Study: Social Media Turns Us Into Hungry Rats Basically

By Tony Ho Tran

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.

U.S. COVID Case Decline Has Stalled, Researchers Warn

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.

Study: “Zoom Fatigue” Exists—and It Totally Sucks

By Tony Ho Tran

Since they peaked in the middle of January, the number of new daily coronavirus infections deaths has been in consistent decline.

COVID Deaths Have Dropped Dramatically Since January

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists took a closer look at a baby with COVID-19, they found that the kid caught a previously-undiscovered variant and had a massive viral load.

This Baby Had 51,000 Times as Much Coronavirus as Expected

By Dan Robitzski

A new variant of the coronavirus is quickly becoming the dominant strain in California, worrying experts, as the Los Angeles Times reports.

Rapidly-Spreading COVID Strain More Transmissible, Less Susceptible to Vaccines

By Victor Tangermann

A very small study found that some patients who recover from the coronavirus could face long-term lung damage and reduced lung capacity.

Patient Dies After Doctors Transplant COVID-Infected Lungs

By Tony Ho Tran

A facility that bottles the AstraZeneca coronavirus into glass vials was temporarily on lockdown today after a suspicious package arrived.

Pfizer Vaccine Curbs COVID Transmissions in Israel by Nearly 90%

By Tony Ho Tran

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints

Outbreak of New Bird Flu in Russia Alarms WHO

By Tony Ho Tran

"FREE AMERICA NOW," billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted early this morning, echoing president Donald Trump's recent tweets about the lockdown.

Elon Musk Collaborated With MIT to Track COVID Infections at SpaceX

By Tony Ho Tran

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.

Johns Hopkins Professor: US Will Hit COVID Herd Immunity by April

By Tony Ho Tran

New coronavirus infections in the United States and around the world dropped by a significant number over the previous week.

Coronavirus Cases Around the World Are Finally Dropping

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.

Pfizer Says Its COVID Vaccine Is 93% Effective After Just One Shot

By Victor Tangermann

New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.

New York State Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Protocols

By Dan Robitzski

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.

Severe COVID-19 Might Lead to Strange Growths Behind the Eyes

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher has discovered "pretty clear" evidence of a new hybrid version of the coronavirus that resulted from two variants combining their genomes.

Two COVID Strains Appear to Have Merged Into a “Heavily Mutated” Hybrid

By Victor Tangermann

British scientists are cleared to begin a human challenge study on the coronavirus, in which volunteers are willingly infected in a controlled environment.

Scientists Are About to Give Research Subjects COVID on Purpose

By Dan Robitzski

In a Tuesday statement, the White House warned that new Ebola outbreaks in Africa need our attention now — otherwise we'd risk "catastrophic consequences."

White House Warns of “Catastrophic Consequences” of New Ebola Outbreaks

By Victor Tangermann

The heart failure drug ivabradine seems to treat the long-hauler symptoms that can last for months after a coronavirus infection.

Doctors Find Drug That Seems to Treat Long-Hauler COVID Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers have come up with a skin patch that can track blood pressure, heart rate, as well as levels of glucose, alcohol, and caffeine.

Prosthetics and Devices

This Skin Patch Can Detect Alcohol and Caffeine in Your Blood

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified seven new coronavirus variants that seem to have emerged independently of each other within the United States.

New COVID Strains Appear to Have Evolved in United States

By Dan Robitzski

As the pandemic rages on, the mental health and wellbeing of young adults and children is suffering to an alarming degree.

The Pandemic Has Shattered Young People’s Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

Guinea declared that it's facing a new Ebola epidemic on Sunday after seven people caught the infectious disease and three died.

In a Grim Development, There’s Officially a New Ebola Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese researchers transplanted sheets containing heart muscle cells derived from stem cells onto a patient's damaged heart for the first time.

Doctor Warns That Teens Are Already Clogging Their Arteries

By Tony Ho Tran

According to UK experts, the fast spreading B117 variant of the coronavirus may increase the death rate by 30 to 40 percent.

Study: UK Coronavirus Variant Is “Likely” Deadlier

By Tony Ho Tran

Sister André, the world's second oldest person, fended off the coronavirus — and celebrated with champagne and a delicious feast.

World’s Second Oldest Person Survives COVID, Celebrates With Champagne

By Tony Ho Tran