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50 percent of cardiac patients have a physical symptom a day before a heart attack, with men and women experiencing distinct warning signs.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Find There’s Usually a Telltale Sign the Day Before a Cardiac Arrest

By Sharon Adarlo

It's easy to poke fun at the idea of marijuana addiction. But the addiction can be very real – and the stigma isn't doing addicts any favors.

Marijuana Addicts Say Nobody Takes Them Seriously

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some patients taking semaglutide medications Ozempic and Wegovy are experiencing gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.

Doctors Say People Taking Semaglutide Are Suffering From Stomach Paralysis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers are projecting that 1.3 billion people will have diabetes by 2050 worldwide, leading to great new strains on health systems.

Scientists Say 1.3 Billion People Will Have Diabetes by 2050

By Sharon Adarlo

In a study, scientists at Johns Hopkins University claim to have determined that, yes, you can actually hear the sound of silence.

Scientists Discover That You Can Hear Silence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Klotho, a naturally-occurring protein that declines in mammals with age, can improve the cognitive function of aging rhesus monkeys.

Neuroscience and Brain

Anti-Aging Injection Boosts Memories in Monkeys, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan harassed vaccine expert Peter Hotez on Twitter. Hotez says he's since been stalked near his home.

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan Publicly Harass Vaccine Researcher on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers claim she can't pay monthly installments of $250 to her victims after prison.

Elizabeth Holmes Says She Can’t Afford $250 Per Month to Pay Back Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.

Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are saying that a certain ingredient found in Monster Energy drinks could be a potent anti-aging longevity supplement.

Astonishing! Ingredient in Monster Energy May Actually Be Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A decade-long global study has shown that a once-daily pill reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by over half.

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That Cuts Lung Cancer Deaths in Half

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.

Startups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.

Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of French scientists has linked refined carbohydrates to worse cognitive function — even when consumed by young, healthy adults.

Refined Carbs Linked to Brain Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An eccentric millionaire obsessed with staying young forever has apparently taken to getting blood transfusions from his teen son.

Youth-Obsessed Tech Mogul Now Swapping Blood With His Teenage Son

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of one man's extreme resilience to early-onset Alzheimer's.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer’s

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you haven't heard: there's drama. Hollywood kidney transplant drama. But who's in the right, and who's in the wrong?

Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

By Sharon Adarlo

The FDA just gave the OK for a new genetically-modified pig sausage to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked sausages for all!

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.

Prosthetics and Devices

Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

So there's a new study that just dropped linking autism with naturally-occurring lithium in the water supply — but as always, there are some major caveats.

Let’s Talk About That Study Linking Autism and Lithium in the Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create “Tea Bag” Implant That Manages Diabetes, Powered by the Body’s Excess Sugar

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

Health & Medicine

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gwenyth Paltrow, reigning queen of oversharing, is back to let us all know that she has, in fact, used ozone therapy rectally. You know, as one does.

RX and Medicine

Gwyneth Paltrow Is Literally Shooting Ozone Up Her Butt for the Sake of “Wellness”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.

Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.

Neuroscience and Brain

Paparazzi Won’t Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

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

Apple has made breakthroughs in a confidential project that would transform its Apple Watches into noninvasive glucose monitors, Bloomberg reports.

Prosthetics and Devices

Secret Apple Project Tracks Blood Sugar Using Apple Watch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bloomberg has decided to chastise the lab-grown meat industry's failure to address cancer concerns — because of the fact that there... aren't... any.

Bloomberg Shredded for Amazingly Stupid Article About Fake Meat and Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018. Now, he speaks out about some of his regrets.

Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Says Mistakes Were Made

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

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.

Neuroscience and Brain

Bad News: the Horrific Zombie Fungus in “The Last of Us” Is Real

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While the possibility of traveling to space is thrilling, the actual effects it has on the body aren't just rough — they're often downright horrifying.

A Brief List of Horrifying Things Space Travel Does to the Human Body

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

It's no secret that social media use can change adult brain anatomy — but a new study suggests that it may affect adolescent brains differently.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are using genetically modified parasites inside mosquitoes to deliver life-saving malaria vaccines in a new clinical study.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New research suggests that this exercise improves endurance — but it may also be linked to a marked improvement in short term memory as well.

Health & Medicine

Study Suggests That This Particular Exercise May Boost Memory

By Frank Landymore

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

Early-onset cancer is an increasing threat to the global population, according to a new report. Early-onset cancer may be a new epidemic.

Young People Are Getting Way More Cancer Than Old People Did

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Astronauts like the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti practice life-saving CPR procedures on board the International Space Station.

Astronaut Shows How to Perform CPR in Zero Gravity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study has found that, counter to popular belief, smoking weed doesn’t appear to actually make people lazy and apathetic after all.

Neuroscience and Brain

Pot Smokers Not More Likely to Be Apathetic or Lazy, Scientists Find

By Jon Christian

Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.

RX and Medicine

Navy SEALs Are Allegedly Taking Viagra for a Very Strange Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists study the immortal jellyfish to learn about its DNA reproduction, life cycle and telomeres. New research reveals its special genes.

Scientists Say They Found the Genes That Makes Immortal Jellyfish Immortal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tattoo ink may contain toxic chemicals — including some that could potentially be carcinogenic — that are nowhere to be found on ingredient lists.

Scientists Concerned About Potential Carcinogens in Your Tattoos

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

A team of university researchers says watching TV as a sedentary activity is more likely to cause dementia than other activities, like computer use.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Link TV Watching to Developing Dementia

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hong Kong is putting street lights on the ground at crosswalks to warn pedestrians distracted by looking down at their phones of the danger.

Hong Kong Puts Street Lights On The Ground Because People Won’t Stop Looking At Their Phones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

$A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.$

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Humanity's selfishness has gotten Freya the globe-trotting walrus killed. She was euthanized after people wouldn't stop posing for pictures with the walrus.

Freya the Boat-Climbing Walrus Euthanized Because of Stupid Humans

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Infamous Pharma Bro Martin Shrekli supposedly sold a huge chunk of his own crypto token, Martin Shkreli Inu, and left customers with worthless currency.

Update: Martin Shkreli Says He Was Hacked, Didn’t Sell Off His New Crypto Token

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Psychedelics like LSD may improve brain function, including boosting learning and memory. It also improves mental health and brain injury.

Neuroscience and Brain

Evidence Is Growing That LSD Improves Learning and Memory

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UN says world population is set to hit 8 billion this November, and experts think popualtion will peak around 10 billion people.

The World Population Is Going to Hit 8 Billion Any Day Now

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hundreds of people living in New York state may have polio, the New York's Department of Health said. Wastewater samples tested positive for polio.

Hundreds May Have Polio, New York Health Officials Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Friday as monkeypox infection rates rise. New Yorkers can sign up for texts about monkeypox.

New York Declares State of Emergency As Monkeypox Infections Increase

By Lonnie Lee Hood