Germany has expressed concern about Belgium extending the lifespan of 40 year old nuclear reactors. The German city of Aachen is suing officials at Belgium’s Tihange nuclear power plant on the grounds that restarting the aging facility is dangerous. Belgium owns two nuclear power plants at Doel, close to the port of Antwerp, and at […]

A live shark was found coasting the waters at a condominium pool in Hypoluxo, Florida, according to the Sun Sentinel. Nicole Bonk was visiting friends at the Mariner’s Cay condo when she saw two boys carrying and dumping a five-foot blacktip shark in the pool at around 11 p.m., local time. The shark appeared to […]

One of Japan’s most active volcanoes, Sakurajima, ended months of silence upon erupting last Friday evening, sending a steady stream of lava down its slope. The blast took place just 50 km from the Sendai nuclear station, which is home to the first reactors to be restarted since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Videos of the […]

Last August, a massive explosion at a chemical storage facility rocked the Chinese port of Tianjin, killing more than one hundred people and spewing an untold amount of toxic sodium cyanide into the environment. Despite the debacle, Beijing plans to build a new portable reactor that can float. Authorities attempted to undermine the severity of the […]

Humans pride themselves for having unparalleled intelligence. However, despite how intelligent we tout ourselves to be, many prevailing myths about intelligence persist, including the belief that it is biologically determined and declines with age. Ross Pelton, Ph.D., exposes these myths and more in his book Mind Food and Smart Pills. The book is a practical guide on […]

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) made news headlines again, after a group of pediatricians claimed that diagnosis of the disorder is excessive and arbitrary. These reports are hardly surprising, given the “father” of ADHD, Leon Eisenberg, admitted the mental illness was a “fictitious disease” on his death bed. According to Dimitri Christakis, pediatrician and epidemiologist […]

European scientists launched a colony of tiny fungi from Antarctica to the International Space Station (ISS) to see if microorganisms could survive in environmental conditions similar to Mars. After 18 months on board the ISS, the researchers found out that the fungi could not only live in a Mars-like environment, they may even colonize the […]

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster demonstrated that the risks attached to nuclear energy outweigh the benefits. Nevertheless, this hasn’t stopped the nuclear industry from prevailing. The U.S. Government is providing the Department of Energy $80 million to fund two advanced reactor programs, which they hope will spur new nuclear power technologies. The grant is split […]

India has experienced an abnormal number of beached whales this month. A 30-foot dead whale just washed ashore Mumbai’s Juhu beach Thursday night, following a slew of whale carcasses to litter the coast in the past few weeks.(1,2) Sources report that night joggers on the beach stumbled across the whale and alerted authorities. The incident comes […]

If you’ve consulted a doctor for a migraine, you’ve probably only heard half the story about your mental health. Most people are told migraines are a hiccup in their make up, which they can do little, if anything about, without the assistance of drugs. In actuality, migraines are kindled by the food we choose to […]

The Zika virus is now spreading explosively in the Americas, declared the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, 28 January. The Zika virus is spread by mosquitoes and has been found everywhere from Argentina to the southern United States. Consequently, it’s more important than ever that people wear a safe and effective mosquito repellent.(1,2) Zika […]

Hillary Clinton has a history of supporting bad ideas, from the Iraq War to GMOs. Just as the Iraq war had unintended consequences, so the GMOs have unintended consequences too. Those unintended consequences are beginning to be felt, as genetically modified mosquitoes help spread the Zika virus. The primary excuse used by those in favor […]

Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, the spokesman for an armed militia occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge, was shot and killed during a traffic stop Tuesday. The anti-government activists seized the site in protest of the federal government’s treatment of Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were sentenced to prison for unpaid grazing fees and setting fires on federally […]

Medicinal cannabis is known to help treat – and in some cases, prevent – a myriad of mental health problems, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Until recently, however, little had been known about the medicinal benefits marijuana has for migraines. According to a recent study, medical marijuana could help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of […]

Researchers discovered genetic mutations in three generations of butterflies near Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi site, less than a year after a tsunami destroyed the power plant. These mutations appeared to have spread rapidly through subsequent generations of butterflies. Since the study, little has been reported on how radiation spewing from the power plant has reshaped […]