Elon Musk’s Neuralink company is facing legal challenges after a report alleges the company subjected monkeys to extreme suffering in a series of experiments. Neuralink is a company working on brain-chips. Musk claims these chips will one day make humans “hyper-intelligent”, and allow paralyzed people to walk. However, the Physicians Committee for[Read More…]

Experts are weighing in on the reasons drinking alcohol can lead to increased anxiety the following day, and pinpointing the causes of what they have dubbed ‘hangxiety.’ Scientists have discovered the reasons a night of drinking can lead to increased heart rate and difficulty breathing the next day. According to[Read More…]

NASA says it plans to retire the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it into an uninhabited stretch of the Pacific Ocean. Phil McAlister, who is the director of commercial space at NASA Headquarters, said in a press release that the private sector will be taking the lead on the development of future[Read More…]

The World Meteorological Organization announced on Tuesday they had officially documented two record-breaking lightning strikes in 2020. The first record-breaker was during a storm that brought a single lightning bolt lasting for an impressive 17.01 seconds on June 18, 2020, over Uruguay and northern Argentina. The strike broke the previously[Read More…]

Scientists have hit an important landmark in making nuclear fusion possible. It is particularly a viable source of energy because the energy we can achieve from nuclear fusion is very high, but the production of waste is very low as well.  US scientists used the world’s largest laser and cajoled[Read More…]

According to a new study, the consumption of alcohol was found to be a direct cause of several different kinds of cancer. The linkage was shown following a large-scale genetic study by Oxford Population Health, which was published in the International Journal of Cancer. Teams from Oxford, Peking University, and[Read More…]

While the omicron variant of the coronavirus is still sweeping the globe, scientists are also watching a new mutation of the variant, which has been called BA.2. But the World Health Organization has said that BA.2 is not a “variant of concern,” noting there is no evidence so far to[Read More…]

On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech published results from a paired study that showed vaccine-induced antibodies are able to neutralize the omicron strain of SARS-Cov-2. The study, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science, includes data from 51 individuals who were given two or three doses of the Pfizer Biontech COVID-19[Read More…]

Moderna Inc’s (MRNA.O) vaccine candidate against the Omicron coronavirus variant will enter clinical development in the next few weeks and the company expects to be able to share data with regulators around March, CEO Stephane Bancel confirmed on Monday. “The vaccine is being finished … it should be in the clinic in[Read More…]

A study out of Cardiff University in Wales showed that people who wear masks are generally more attractive to others than non-masked people. The study, outlined in a university release this week, compared the faces of 40 males, both masked and unmasked. The faces were rated by a group of[Read More…]