The number of zombie apocalypse movies has been growing over the last few years, introducing “fast-moving” zombies and new kinds of swarming behaviors for the […]
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Near-death experiences are surprisingly similar – and vivid
WHAT do you see before you die: angels, a bright light or your life on replay?A Belgium researcher has interviewed 190 people who have reported […]
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Near-death experiences are overwhelmingly peaceful
Near-death experiences are rare, but if you have one, it is likely to be overwhelmingly peaceful, however painful it might have been to get to […]
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Neuroscience: The man who saw time freeze
It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. […]
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The Dark Knight of the Soul
Set back on quiet College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, sits a dignified, four story, 19th-century house that belongs to Dr. Willoughby Britton. Inside, it […]
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Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness
Sitting at his laboratory bench, a scientist adds mutation after mutation to a strand of rabies virus RNA, unaware that in a few short days, […]
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Where the Deadly Things Grow
Compared to fauna, flora and fungi have a pretty mellow reputation where humans are concerned. Unsubstantiated rumors of man-eating pitcher plants aside, most growing things […]
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10 Instances of Medical Quackery Throughout History
Researchers, doctors and laymen alike have long known of the power of the placebo. When people believe a sugar pill is going to cure their […]
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Beauty care 100 years ago
Pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange […]
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Jerusalem: Land of Medicine or Miracles?
The blue and white painted ceramic jars stretch up to the ceiling. Marked with the traditional symbol of five crosses, each jar held a medicine […]
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What’s Behind Reports of Ghost Sex?
Last year it was pop superstar Kesha; now it’s actress Natasha Blasick — star of “Paranormal Activity 2″ — coming forward to talk about her […]
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A Powerful, Portable, And Affordable Robotic Exoskeleton
Surviving a stroke or debilitating injury is often the start of a very long ordeal. Physical therapy can be slow and strenuous with no guarantee […]
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‘Wild-haired and witch-like’: the wisewoman in industrial society
Many of us rely on herbal remedies to maintain our health, from peppermint tea to soothe our stomachs to arnica cream for alleviating bruising. Such […]
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Young blood ‘reverses ageing signs’
It sounds like the stuff of vampire movies, but scientists have shown that an infusion of young blood can reverse signs of ageing.Although the ghoulish […]
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A cyborg future? A liquid metal alloy successfully reconnects severed nerves
Scientists have used liquid metal to reconnect the severed nerves of frogs – and the results were awesome.Researchers at Tsinghua University in China were looking […]
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Mystery of 1918 Flu That Killed 50 Million Solved?
Scientists announced Monday that they may have solved one of history’s biggest biomedical mysteries—why the deadly 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, which killed perhaps 50 million […]
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Ghosts in your head
One warm summer day, I heard the familiar tune of an ice cream truck outside my window. That night as I was going to bed […]
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The Tragic Story of How Einstein’s Brain Was Stolen and Wasn’t Even Special
My headline may be a bit misleading. Albert Einstein, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who gave the world the theory of relativity, E = mc2, and […]
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The Microbiology of Zombies
Zombies come in a variety of forms these days; fast ones, slow ones, flesh-eating ones, scary ones and funny ones but whatever the type of […]
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A Geological Haunting in Connecticut
For hundreds of years spooky noises have emanated from the wooded hills surrounding the village of Moodus, Connecticut. The deep rumblings and jarring cracks seem […]
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Scientists discover brain’s anti-distraction system
This discovery opens up the possibility that environmental and/or genetic factors may hinder or suppress a specific brain activity that the researchers have identified as […]
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Synesthesia Helps Explain Mysterious Spelunker’s Illusion
Many people swear by the so-called spelunker’s illusion, in which they think they can see their own hands moving even in the total absence of […]
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This Tiny Camera Could Take Real Time Images From Inside Your Arteries | I Fucking Love Science
This Tiny Camera Could Take Real Time Images From Inside Your Arteries | I Fucking Love Science.
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I Was Wrong…
Okay, so I changed my mind… In 1947, three UFOs crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The Military recovered… erm.. one saucer-shaped craft and the bodies […]
