New study suggests that smartphones reduce brain power even while turned off

BY: NADIA ZAIDI  A new study says that the mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, even if the device is turned off. Researchers at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas conducted experiments with around…

Robots will soon be able to perform colonoscopies

BY: NADIA ZAIDI  I’m surprised that Robots haven’t yet replaced humans. From jobs to performance, they have beaten us at our own game. Ironically, humans make them, and apparently a little too well. You don’t need a surgeon’s steady hand…

Researchers build a bio-chip that mimics the reproduction cycle

BY: SHAWNTAE HARRIS  Women have always had a love-hate relationship with their reproduction cycle. The thing that allows women to bring life into the world has also left some with serious health problems. Until today there haven’t really been any…

5 Alternatives to Animal Testing

BY RHIANN MOORE With modern science being what it is there’s really no excuse for why big businesses continue to animal test. When companies like Lush Cosmetics, Avalon Organics, Too Faced are able to succeed while advocating for anti-animal testing…

A LSD dosage is so strong because it literally gets trapped inside your brain

BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Somewhere between your latest viewing of “Alice in Wonderland” or your realization that the popular Beatles song “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” actually contains a hidden message, you may be wondering what does a hallucinogenic drug…

There’s now a patch that can stop peanut allergies

BY RHIANN MOORE If you’ve spent your life forced to envy the simplistic, yet delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, those days could soon be behind you. A treatment for the menacingly common peanut allergy is being proven to work by…

This is what your music taste says about your personality, according to research

BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY If there is one thing the population of the Earth can agree on (because at this moment in time, we can’t seem to agree on anything) it’s the love and appreciation for music. If we stop and…

Six scientifically proven ways to increase your happiness

BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY We can all understand what happiness is, or at least what it is supposed to feel like. It’s that joyful feeling when you land your dream job, when you take that first photo of a place you’ve…

Scientists have found the best thing that you can do on the weekends to sleep better

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP With the world available at your fingertips in the form of a smartphone, or the ability to binge watch any show at all hours of the night, or with the never-ending nagging list of stresses running through…

This new artificial leaf converts sunlight into fuel

It’s incredibly daunting to think that future generations won’t be growing up in the same environment as the one in which we have spent centuries taking for granted. Climate change, global warming, animal extinctions and other environmental threats are becoming…

The world’s weirdest mammal could provide a new, effective treatment for diabetes

BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS  There’s no animal quite as memorable as the platypus. This slippery, aquatic holdover from the age of the dinosaurs sports an infamously improbable array of anatomical features that set it apart from just about every other…

Scientists have created a new drug that treats pain without any addictive consequences

BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY It is a primal human desire to want to alter our consciousness through the use of substances, but when one becomes dependent on said substance that is when trouble ensues. In the past, we have thought of…