Genocea Biosciences, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced this week that a new genital herpes drug treatment they have invented has been showing great promise in recent tests. The new drug is called GEN-003 and the company announced its recent test findings on Monday at a meeting held in Boston at the American Society for Microbiology. …
It seems that science actually has a name for it. Science calls it geophagy. Others call it eating dirt. While it may seem like some sort of bizarre eating disorder to some, it is a way of life for many others around the world. In many countries of the world, dirt is somewhat of a …
A research team of astronomers at San Diego State University and the NASA Goddard Center have discovered a giant planet that is currently orbiting in a solar system that has two suns. The scientists also noted that it is the largest planet they have yet discovered in that solar system. It is called Kepler 1647-b …
Science has always posed itself as the big know-it-all of the world. It continues to declare Absolute Truth and demand that the world accept its declarations as Absolute Truth. There are, however, a few rather bizarre mysteries for which Science still has absolutely no clue about. The Placebo Effect The Placebo Effect, as most everyone …
A young Michigan man, Stan Larkin, 25, had survived for an astounding 17 months, that’s 555 days, without a heart. He had been waiting patiently for a heart transplant but the waiting list tends to be extremely long. He was kept alive by a revolutionary artificial heart that he was hooked up to and was …
A small company located in the Netherlands called Plastic Whale is hard at work cleaning up the pollution that clogs Amsterdam’s canals and rivers. It is mostly plastic, with half lives of a thousand years, and the company has found a fun and innovative way to clean up the environment and keep the company afloat …
For years, some of the world’s leading scientists, including physicist Stephen Hawking, have warned against thinking and reasoning artificial intelligence and robots. They warn that the more intelligent the AI robots get, the greater the chance that the human race will be destroyed, or at least supplanted, by them. With the advancements in current AI …
How many times have you thought to maybe just chuck it all and go and live off the grid? No daily grind, no annoying fellow humans, no commute, no stupid boss? Well, how about living in the middle of the ocean in an Unidentified Floating Object home? These UFO house pods are the invention of …
In a new report issued by the global internet security firm, Rapid 7, they have mapped the entire internet with regard to which nations in the world are most vulnerable to an attack by determined hackers. The company’s National Exposure Index created an infrared heat map of country’s internet system and servers looking for vulnerabilities; …
Anyone familiar with quantum physics is well aware of the legendary hypothetical experiment of Schrodinger’s Cat. The paradox attempts to explain, from the quantum mechanics world view, their concept of superposition and how it relates to the everyday lives of people and objects. Basically, a cat is put into a box with a sealed vial …