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10/30/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Prolonged exposure to blue light from mobile phones can lead to macular degeneration

Is your smartphone making you blind? New research has confirmed that the blue light emitted from cellphones and other gadgets can cause lasting damage to your eyes, and eventually, may even lead to blindness. As screen time continues to increase, the risk of macular degeneration from too much blue light increases too. As scientists now […]

07/22/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Health apps are BAD for your privacy: 80% or more share your data, research reveals

A European study revealed that mobile health apps were sending health-related data to third-party companies, harming the privacy of its users. This study was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Pireus in Greece and Rovira I Virgili University in Spain. The research team analyzed 20 well-known, free mobile health apps that […]

07/02/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Evidence is accumulating that hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields can cause high blood sugar

Some 30 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and the number of people affected continues to grow every year. The disease and its hallmark symptom, high blood sugar, are known to have a number of risk factors like poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. But a growing body of evidence shows that there may be an […]

05/20/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Former DARPA exec to head shady Facebook project called “Building 8” centered around augmented reality and brain-scanning technology

As if things weren’t already bad enough for Mark Zuckerberg’s baby, Facebook (the world’s least trusted company at this point), now they are apparently working on a secret project behind the scenes that has nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with scanning people’s brains as part of a sinister artificial intelligence […]

03/17/2018 / By David Williams

Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft cause increased traffic congestion in cities, research finds

It’s taken ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft less than a decade to become majorly disruptive market forces. But it looks like the market isn’t the only thing getting disrupted. Executives at either company have long maintained that their services help improve traffic in cities where they are available by virtue of the fact that […]

03/15/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Shocking scientific study concludes violent video games may REDUCE real-world violence by providing a safe outlet for aggression

A recent study published in Violence and Gender reported that video games can “decrease the likelihood of producing hate material online.” According to researcher Jim Hawdon, the results of the study implies that “violent video games may serve as an outlet for aggression, not a precursor.” Hawdon is a professor of sociology and director of the Virginia Tech Center […]

01/15/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Google and Facebook are making your kids STUPID: Access to immediate information inhibits the ability to think critically and creatively

When we think of the dangers of Google and Facebook for kids, we tend to worry about them stumbling across information that isn’t age-appropriate or that they will become victims of internet predators. However, there is yet another legitimate concern that not everyone takes into account and that even the best parental control software can […]

12/09/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

No, we won’t have a Blade Runner future: The robots of tomorrow won’t look like humans — we’re too inefficient

In the 1980s science fiction classic Blade Runner, there exist human-looking robots known as replicants. These fictional biorobotic androids seem human on the surface yet possess strength, agility, speed, and resilience superior to ours. They’re also what many of us imagine the robots of the future will look like — as human as possible. Though […]

10/18/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Bad science warning: More than 30,000 studies may have been compromised by contaminated cell lines used for decades

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be wrong? Books and movies have posed this dramatic question in the past, but now it could become reality as new research casts doubt on the cell samples used for more than 30,000 scientific studies. According to a report out of Radboud University in the […]

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