An unflinching look at 'The Pain of Others'
As in her animated documentary "Nuts!" (2016), about a man who made a fortune transplanting goat testicles as an impotence treatment, director Penny Lane blurs the boundary between fiction and nonfiction.
Patients Without Borders: The Rise of Medical Tourism
There is simply no way of getting around it: American health care is exorbitantly expensive. But while many people look to government to solve our nation's health care woes, the real solutions lie elsewhere. In fact, the more the government interve
Programmed DNA origami nanobot kills cancer in mice
Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off
US Army developing a "Third Arm" for soldiers
The US Army isn't just looking to giving soldiers a hand, but a whole extra arm. At the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is testing a prototype passive support system called Third Arm, which evenly distribut
Material could regenerate dental enamel
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralized materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.
Dr. Joseph Mercola on cannabis and tumors.
Medical cannabis has a long history as a natural analgesic,1 and is now legal in 30 U.S. states,2,3 the majority of which allow limited use of medical marijuana under certain medical circumstances.
Creating real life superheroes
Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr looks at how near term technology could be used to create Marvel's Captain America. Chasing Captain America explores what the real limits of being human are, how far we should bend those lim
Transhuman Dreamin': Brains Kept Alive Without A Body
The lure of Transhuman immortality intensifies as scientists discover that a brain can stay alive outside of its original body. It is a giant, if not impossible, leap to believe that such a brain could be transplanted into another body. ? TN Editor
MIT Researchers Have Developed a 'System for Dream Control'
There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but we rarely stop to marvel at the strangeness of this liminal world. If we do, we find that it is full of hallucinations both wonderful
50 Ways to Use Salt for Survival: Everything You Need to Know
One of the very first things I did when I first started prepping was to bolster my pantry with basic staples that could be used for a variety of purposes. When it was suggested that I store salt, and lots of it, I was a disbeliever. After all, conve
Fluoride: A Big Mistake?
What is fluoride? Is it safe to drink? Is it safe for your children? Should we be adding fluoride to our water supply?