Category: Science
5 Different Types of Magnesium and How They Affect the Body
Magnesium is one of many essential nutrients our bodies need to maintain health. Humans have used this element for medicinal purposes since ancient times, and…
Even More Evidence That Alzheimer’s Was Being Spread by Now-Banned Injections
The practice of injecting children with growth hormone extracted from the brains of deceased people was abandoned long ago – with good reason. Around 200…
Newly Identified ‘Hell Chicken’ Species Helps Explain Time of the Dinosaurs
Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous, the geologic period that started about 145…
NASA Finally Gets At Its Bits of Bennu
Eight years. Over a billion dollars. New tools that even get at the samples … and this is what people saw: The sample tray from…
First-Ever Footage of a Newborn Great White Shark Has Scientists in a Frenzy
A wildlife filmmaker and biology student have recorded something scientists have long been searching for: the first-ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark. The…
One-Eyed-Looking Mammoth Fossils May Have Inspired Origins of the Cyclops
Fossils of prehistoric elephants may have inspired the Greek myth of giant, one-eyed, man-eating creatures, known as cyclopes. In the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poet…
Scientists Think They’re on The Verge of Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier
The human brain is the body’s most protected organ, and for good reason. To keep our body’s ‘control center’ safe from pathogens and toxins, the…
‘Obelisks’: Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System
Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects….
Scientists More Hopeful Than Ever That Perseverance Has Already Found Life on Mars
If signs of life really do exist on Mars, there’s a chance the Perseverance rover has already rolled over them. Underground radar images suggest it…
Astronomers See a New Type of Hidden Star For The First Time
In the early days of telescopic astronomy, you could only focus on one small region of the sky at a time. Careful observations had to…