Aging is one of the most familiar and mysterious phenomena of life. Even to this day, researchers still disagree about the causes of aging; and, indeed, if we don’t know why we age, how can we expect to treat it? Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman explore the many theories of aging in their book Stopping the […]

Seth Shostak, the director of communication at the Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Institute, is optimistic with respect to the search for extraterrestrials. When it comes to the future of humanity, however, Shostak is a little more grim. In an opinion piece for SETI entitled, “Could This Be Humanity’s Last Century?,” Shostak suggests that the […]

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 […]

Harvard University has been granted $28 million to try to figure out why human brains are better at processing and absorbing information than artificial intelligence (A.I.). The award, provided by the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could make A.I. systems more like the breathing tissue of biological brains than the cold steel of artificial silicon. A […]

Science is a recent enterprise to take humanity by storm. Despite its infancy, science has made rapid progress. But in order to understand where science can take us, it’s important to understand its roots, which have been been oversimplified – and in many cases, skewed – by mainstream television. Anyone looking to refresh their memory […]

Newt Gingrich’s promise to build a manned moon base by 2020 was met with disbelieving stares during the last presidential election. Comparable remarks made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new boss, Jan Woerner, have provoked similar responses.(1) Hopes for a manned moon base equipped with robots and people are batted as just another crazy idea at […]

People have been trying to block ads since they first made their way into newspapers. They’ve leaped from the pages of the publishing industry to the mainstream, and are becoming increasingly difficult to block in the wake of the cyber era. In other words, the struggle is real. Fortunately, ad blockers do exist. Unfortunately, not […]

Occurrences of the mosquito-born Zika virus are escalating throughout Latin America, affecting thousands of women and their unborn babies. The disease, which was first detected in the 1940s, resembles the symptoms of dengue fever including mild fever, rash and bloodshot eyes. However, it differs vastly in that it’s linked to birth defects, resulting in a […]

The Mountain Gorilla, a subspecies of the eastern gorilla living in Africa, is on the brink of extinction “due to detrimental human activity, such as poaching, civil war, and habitat destruction,” according to AnimalFactGuide.com. The “critically endangered” animal was placed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species after researchers discovered that there was only […]

Scientists are often portrayed as objective, dispassionate researchers constantly in quest of the truth. However, science is a social institution subject to the same competition for grants and glory as any other establishment. As a result, some scientists tend to exaggerate the significance of their research to get ahead of their peers. This is at least what […]

Statins, a widely prescribed drug used to lower “bad” cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, could increase the risk of diabetes by nearly 50 percent, according to a major research trial. A six-year study from Finland involving nearly 9,000 men discovered that those prescribed statins were far more likely to suffer from poor […]

The world’s largest chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. raked in record profits in 2015, highlighting a burgeoning industry that’s changing the way humans interact with and connect to technology. The company’s net profits totalled an upwards of $9 billion, up more than 16 percent from last year, along with 10.6 percent increase in revenue, according […]

It’s no secret that conventional medicine is a corrupt institution owned by Big Pharma, which pumps out a steady stream of medications with their own dangerous side-effects. What is less known is that conventional density is just as bad as the care and treatment patients receive in typical hospitals. Morton Walker (D.P.M.) and Julian Whitmaker (M.D.) […]

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between a pseudo illness and a legitimate illness in psychiatry. Every week, mental health “experts” claim to have unearthed a new malady by attaching a label to an arbitrary list of symptoms, from ADHD to obesity. Apparently, more people would rather masquerade under the cliche, “my disease made me do […]

Despite a funding ban, several U.S. research facilities are moving forward with experiments that could produce human–animal chimeras. The possibility is fueled by scientists attempting to grow human organs inside animals like sheep and pigs. Approximately 20 animals have been impregnated with human organs in the last year under the watchful eyes of American universities. […]