Tag: Biology

The Family Profiting From the Opioid Crisis Hides Behind Charity

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy. America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions A recent article published in the New...

Big Pharma Billionaire Arrested for Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioids

Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company's top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very same day the Trump administration declared America’s opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. According to CBS News, Kapoor was arrested early on Thursday morning at his home in...
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Dolphins Having ‘Conversations’ Like Humans. True or False?

If dolphins could talk, what would they say? Their preferred topics of conversation may remain a mystery, but Ukrainian scientists have recently conducted research...

What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years?

No one really knows what the future holds, but isn't it fun to speculate? Nickolay Lamm is an artist and researcher who has made...

How Two Biotech Companies are Trying to Bring the Dead Back to Life

For centuries, humans have tried to bring people back from the dead and, as far as we know, every attempt has failed. In modern...

Scientists Think They Cracked the Origin of the Recipe for Life on Earth

The origin of how life began on Earth has plagued the curiosity of mankind since the dawn of the human race. It’s something that...

Study Shows Elephants Avoid Cancer with ‘Zombie’ Gene

Our giant mammalian cousin the elephant has a weirdly long life span. Simple logic says that cancers should be developing more frequently in elephants, given...

In This Isolated Village, Little Girls Are Turning Into Boys at Puberty

For most boys and girls, puberty is an awkward and difficult time. Voices drop, moods swing, and hair grows in places it never did...

Tribe’s Kids Can Literally Swim Underwater Like Mermaids & See Like Dolphins

Every kid (and let's be real, probably every adult) dreams of being able to swim like a mermaid, or see through the ocean like...

These 10 Species Are Dangerously Close to Extinction

Yes, we’ve all heard of the polar bears, the whales, the giant pandas, the tigers, and the rhinos topping the endangered species charts and...

15 Gene Mutations That Could Make You Superhuman

There are super humans walking among us, who thanks to little tweaks in their genetic makeup, can do amazing things. Here are 15 genetic...