Health
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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 that stage. This is the conclusion from the first study into how the cause of trauma affects the content of a near-death experience.Such episodes are often described as emotionally rich,…
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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. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets had stopped in mid-air”, he says. “They came into hard focus rapidly, over the course…
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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 is warm, spacious, and organized. The shelves are stocked with organic foods. A solid wood dining room table seats up to 12. Plants are ubiquitous. Comfortable pillows are never far…
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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, an outbreak of this very mutation would destroy society as we know it. It could be called “Zombie Rabies,” a moniker befitting of the next Hollywood blockbuster—or, in this case,…
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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 mind their own business, clean the atmosphere, lynchpin ecosystems, and provide sustenance for the animals, homo sapiens included. Some, however, contain deadly poison… read more Where the Deadly Things Grow…
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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 ills, they tend to feel better after taking one. Of course, if the malady is more serious than a head cold or anxiety, a sugar pill may trick your mind…
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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 devices or put weird things on their faces. read more Beauty care 100 years ago.
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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 ranging from honey to myrrh to the famous Jerusalem balsan. The jars came from the first pharmacy in Jerusalem founded by a Franciscan month in the 17th century. read more…
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Last year it was pop superstar Kesha; now it’s actress Natasha Blasick — star of “Paranormal Activity 2″ — coming forward to talk about her sexual experiences.With ghosts. read more What’s Behind Reports of Ghost Sex? : Discovery News.
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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 of recovery. Robotic exoskeletons can sometimes provide the support a ravaged body needs to heal—and strength when it can’t—but they typically cost more than a car and must be anchored…
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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 is the faith in these remedies that Britain’s National Health Service NHS has funded alternative medical treatments and specialist homeopathic hospitals. However, in recent years, there has been impassioned debate…
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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 experiment was conducted on laboratory mice, the next step could involve a study of elderly humans.The researchers believe young blood may contain natural chemicals that turn back the clock to…
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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 for ways to keep muscles active while waiting for nerves to heal and thought that a liquid metal alloy could be a safe solution, due to its high levels of…
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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 people worldwide, largely targeted healthy young adults. read more Mystery of 1918 Flu That Killed 50 Million Solved?.
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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 I heard it again, faintly in the distance. But why was an ice cream truck cruising the neighborhood at nearly midnight? It wasn’t. Gradually I realized the jingle was not…
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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 the law of the photoelectric effect, obviously had a special brain. So special that when he died in Princeton Hospital, on April 17, 1955, the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey,…
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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 zombie, they remain one of the most scary and successful “monsters” in popular culture. The model zombie is thought to originate long ago in the voodoo cultures of Haiti and…
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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 to come from within the hills themselves and are often accompanied by tremors. Over the years they have inspired a sense of foreboding among the local inhabitants. The original Native…
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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 helping us prevent distraction. read more: Scientists discover brain’s anti-distraction system.
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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 light. You don’t have to see it to believe it: in a recent article in Psychological Science, cognitive scientists based at Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester have demonstrated…
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This revealing chart shows exactly where a number of dietary supplements and popular treatments lie in relation to the actual scientific evidence supporting the claims made for them. *Addendum I have received comments that Omega3 appears more than once in the above chart. This is because there are a variety of claims made against…
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This Tiny Camera Could Take Real Time Images From Inside Your Arteries | I Fucking Love Science.
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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 of three dead alien life forms and took them… somewhere or other and performed top top secret autopsies on them. The military used Russian Civilian Gasmasks which were not available…
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Following his wife’s death, David Stannard became accustomed to spending quiet evenings alone at his home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. So it came as a surprise to the 73-year-old when he looked up from his television one evening to discover he was sharing his living room with two RAF pilots and a schoolboy. ‘The pilots were…