Health

Antioxidants Will Not Stop You From Dying

When you hear something is chock-full of antioxidants, the mental conclusion is often: That’s it—that’s the elixir of life, I have to eat a lot of that. But why do we all assume that loading up on anti-oxidants will somehow be the key to infinite youth? This week, news outlets reported on a new study…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Shit Sandwich That Includes Arctic Drilling and Rolling Back Obamacare

What’s health care got to do with oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)? Well, quite a bit, actually—but that’s not why Republicans lumped the two together into their tax reform bill. The GOP’s been working up a devious scheme to restructure the tax code for weeks now. They finally released…

Earther Yessenia Funes

The FDA Just Approved a Pill With Sensors in It For the First Time Ever

The era of digital pills is here. This week, for the first time ever, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill with sensors inside to inform doctors how often the drug was taken. In a press release to Gizmodo, the FDA said atypical anti-psychotic drug Abilify MyCite was the first medication it had approved…

Health Tom McKay

In Puerto Rico, Innovative Solar Projects Aid Kids in Need

It’s been more than seven weeks since Hurricane Maria devoured Puerto Rico in 155-mile-per-hour winds, and more than half of the people are still without electricity. Around 12 percent are without running water. Now, two separate groups have stepped in to install solar powered systems that provide both. Each recently went online at a Boys…

Environmental Justice Tracy Staedter

Disneyland Decontaminates Cooling Towers Linked to Legionnaire’s Disease Outbreak

Disneyland shut down two cooling towers after it was discovered they may have played a role in a small Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in southern California, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. According to the paper, the cooling towers in question appear to be associated with the cases of 12 people who spent time in…

Health Tom McKay

That Viral Story of an ‘Awakened’ Vegetative Patient Serves as a Cautionary Tale

Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state. Someone tries a wild treatment, and boom, people are crying, the relative is awake, and the headlines go viral. But science doesn’t really work this way. A man recently “woke” from a vegetative…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Nurses Mobilize to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change

Climate change and global health are inextricably woven together. And as climate change worsens health problems around the world, nurses are often left to pick up the pieces in hospitals and clinics. And they are. But in addition to helping the victims of natural disasters today, nurses are thinking about how to protect the most…

Earther Yessenia Funes

When Hope Runs Out, Cancer Patients Are Making Their Own DIY Immunotherapy Treatments

Every generation has had its breakthrough that promised to, at long last, finally cure cancer, but this time around the chances of actually pulling it off are looking pretty good. Rapid advancement in fields like genetics have led to incredible success using immunotherapies to turn patients’ own bodies into cancer-fighting machines. Pharmaceutical companies, philanthropic billionaires…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Puerto Rico Turns to Call Center, Rescue Searches, and Helicopters to Bring Patients to Hospital Ship

A month has passed since Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico in ruins. Now, the island is facing a multi-pronged health crisis. And people need hospitals. Enter the the Navy’s East Coast Hospital Ship. The U.S. Department of Defense recently dispatched the ship to care for patients while Puerto Rico’s hospitals get back on their feet.…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Puerto Rico Is on the Brink of a Terrifying Public Health Crisis

When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands as a Category 4 storm this past month, it immediately brought devastation from winds, flooding, and storm surge to many Americans. The entire island lost electricity. While there’s been some recovery to the power grid and shorter gas lines, the next concern is more…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Do Please Enjoy This Clip of a Boy Who Inhaled a Whistle Whistling When He Inhales

Take it from a wise 20-something: you will, at some point, require medical attention for something entirely avoidable and at least somewhat embarrassing. Just how embarrassing it is may vary, but it’s OK. It happens to the best of us. Case in point: Per the New Zealand Herald, an eight-year-old patient recently showed up to…

Sploid Tom McKay

Here’s How The Body Keeps Time, Thanks to This Year’s Nobel Winning Science

The human body is like a computer in a whole lot of ways. It’s got a processor, it’s got memory, it needs energy to run, it can solve problems, and, uh, it sees its fair share of porn. But it also has a clock—one whose mechanics have only been delved into fairly recently. The Nobel…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

New ‘Chemical Surgery’ Technique Repairs Mutations in Human Embryos

For the first time, a research team from China used a new technique to fix a blood disorder in human embryos. The scientists performed “chemical surgery”—a procedure that rewrites errors in genetic code instead of snapping and replacing strands of faulty DNA, which is the central strategy employed by the CRISPR gene editing system. The…

Tech News George Dvorsky

A Mutated Strain of ‘Super Malaria’ Is Spreading at an Alarming Rate

In a disturbing development, a newly-mutated strain of drug-resistant malaria has spread into Vietnam, complicating efforts to contain the the mosquito-borne virus in Southeast Asia, and potentially posing a global threat. Like bacteria, malaria is adapting to our medicines. Drug resistance is a growing problem for malaria treatment, with fears that the disease could one…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Opioids Are Shaving Months Off U.S. Life Expectancy

The United States has an opioid problem. Heroin overdose deaths rates have tripped since 2010 according to one report—and overall opioid overdose death rates have tripled since 2000. It’s not going away. https://gizmodo.com/america-has-a-prescription-painkiller-problem-and-its-1669175331 Looking at how the opioid epidemic has affected U.S. life expectancy between 2000 and 2015, scientists at the CDC learned that on…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Horrible Flesh Eating Parasite Could Get a Vaccine One Day

Being healthy is good. That is what we should all aspire to be: Not dead, but with all of our flesh on our bodies intact. Unfortunately for us humans, having our flesh eaten is one of the possible side effects of being alive. Anyway, scientists at Georgia Tech interested in helping us achieve the general…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Particles in Tattoos Can Travel to Lymph Nodes, Study Finds

Tattoos are very cool and I do not want to say bad things about them. Evidence of tattooing dates back thousands of years, and the art form has a long history across the world in various cultures. Tattooing has associations with wealth, crime, or seafaring depending on where in history you look. Today, there’s no…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Sitting All Day Is Definitely Bad, But Does Getting Up Once in a While Help?

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that sitting for long periods of time is bad for us. But new research suggests it’s not just the total amount of time we spend sitting each day that we need to worry about, it’s also the length of time between bouts of physical activity. While still incomplete, these…

Health George Dvorsky

How to Binge-Watch Without Hurting Your Health

There’s no doubt that settling down into a marathon TV viewing session is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend an evening (or morning or afternoon), but it’s also true that you can have too much of a good thing. If you want to know the ground rules for binge-watching without harming your health,…

Gadgets David Nield

Bulletproof Coffee Announces Bottled Bullshit Launch at Whole Foods

If you agitate cream enough, you will make whipped cream. Continue agitating it and skim off the liquid, and you will make butter. Put that in your coffee, and you have now wasted a lot of energy to put cream into your coffee. Somehow, the company trying to capitalize on this time waste of a…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Antioxidants Will Not Stop You From Dying

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Shit Sandwich That Includes Arctic Drilling and Rolling Back Obamacare

The FDA Just Approved a Pill With Sensors in It For the First Time Ever

In Puerto Rico, Innovative Solar Projects Aid Kids in Need

Disneyland Decontaminates Cooling Towers Linked to Legionnaire’s Disease Outbreak

That Viral Story of an ‘Awakened’ Vegetative Patient Serves as a Cautionary Tale

Nurses Mobilize to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change

When Hope Runs Out, Cancer Patients Are Making Their Own DIY Immunotherapy Treatments

Puerto Rico Turns to Call Center, Rescue Searches, and Helicopters to Bring Patients to Hospital Ship

Puerto Rico Is on the Brink of a Terrifying Public Health Crisis

Do Please Enjoy This Clip of a Boy Who Inhaled a Whistle Whistling When He Inhales

Here’s How The Body Keeps Time, Thanks to This Year’s Nobel Winning Science

New ‘Chemical Surgery’ Technique Repairs Mutations in Human Embryos

A Mutated Strain of ‘Super Malaria’ Is Spreading at an Alarming Rate

Opioids Are Shaving Months Off U.S. Life Expectancy

Horrible Flesh Eating Parasite Could Get a Vaccine One Day

Particles in Tattoos Can Travel to Lymph Nodes, Study Finds

Sitting All Day Is Definitely Bad, But Does Getting Up Once in a While Help?

How to Binge-Watch Without Hurting Your Health

Bulletproof Coffee Announces Bottled Bullshit Launch at Whole Foods

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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