All posts tagged with weird science

(Natural News) Soldiers that are wounded in the battlefield often face terrifying ordeals that can quickly lead to their untimely deaths. For this reason, the military is constantly looking for ways to improve the way they respond to calls for help whenever any members get injured in the line of duty. Now the actual U.S. […]

(Natural News) Anti-white racism is alive and well at the University of Colorado Denver, where two faculty members recently published an inflammatory essay that claims science is inherently racist against “people of color” because the bulk of it was forged by people of non-color, a.k.a. white people. Cheryl E. Matias and Paul T. Le apparently […]

(Natural News) Psilocybin is the naturally occurring substance that puts the “magic” in “magic mushrooms.” Their psychedelic properties have made them popular for therapeutic, spiritual, and recreational use — for humans at least. But their biological purpose, as well as their evolutionary origins, has remained a mystery. Until now. A study, published in Evolution Letters, […]

(Natural News) When people hear the word “ultrasound,” the first thing that comes to their mind is a scene of a woman lying on a hospital bed, with the medical technician’s hand guiding a device with a cool gel applied her your body. While that’s one of the leading applications of ultrasound – high-frequency sound waves that are inaudible […]

(Natural News) A study conducted by researchers from Iowa State University revealed that a certain species of birds helps chili peppers grow in the wild. According to the researchers, the data from their study helped them learn more about “a mutualistic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between birds and chili peppers in the Mariana Islands.” Haldre Rogers, an […]

(Natural News) To date, humanity has been able to discover and eventually tap on a number of renewable energy sources. From wind mills to solar panels, there have been all sorts of inventions and gadgets that come with the ability to generate electricity from certain natural sources. Now a team of engineers from the Massachusetts […]

(Natural News) As of this writing, another major winter storm — a “Nor’easter,” as they are called along the East Coast — was set to dump more than a foot of snow in the region, with some parts expected to get 16 inches or more. “Another major storm will spread wet snow and travel disruptions […]

(Natural News) Although scorpion venom is one of the deadliest chemicals in the world, it’s also one of the most useful. Multiple studies have shown this neurotoxin to have tremendous potential in the field of human medicine. The most recent of these studies, published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, has discovered yet […]

(Natural News) Upset by his narrow loss to Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush in 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore found solace not in challenging Bush four years later, but in becoming the biggest hawker of ‘global warming/climate change’ there ever was. It’s paid off for the former VEEP — literally. As noted by the […]

(Natural News) A recent study from the University of Tampere in Finland has found out that nasally-administered oxytocin spray can make mothers of one-year-old infants develop strong brain responses to pictures of infant and adult faces. While oxytocin seems to be a key player in processing social information and strengthening social bonds, it is surprising to […]