Tag Archives: science

Why selling baby parts should shock no one

07/23/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
“…if we come to see ourselves as meat, then meat we shall become.” — Leon Kass, M.D., “Toward a More Natural Science” What is most shocking about an undercover video of a conversation between Deborah Nucatola, a Planned Parenthood executive,…

An herb may help fight Ebola

05/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
While the Ebola virus was previously in the news daily for months, that story has died down, and the situation with the virus is slowly improving in West Africa. Still, 150 new cases of Ebola were reported just this past…

BodyWorn, the police-worn camera that aims to reduce crime

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(BodyWorn) Should local police wear and use a body camera at all times? That’s the debate many police departments are having after riots broke out in Baltimore in April. Last year, unrest in Ferguson led to continuing racial tensions. Yet,…

WWII ship used for atomic bomb tests found ‘amazingly intact’

04/21/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The USS Independence aircraft carrier, which operated during World War II, has been located about a half mile underwater off California’s Farallon Islands. Using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) dubbed the Echo Ranger and a 3D-imaging sonar system, researchers have…

‘Alien’ camel skeleton discovered along the Danube river

04/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The nearly complete skeleton of a camel, dating to the 17th century, was discovered along the Danube River in Tulln, Austria. (Alfred Galik/Vetmeduni Vienna) The skeleton of a camel that lived in the 17th century during the second Ottoman-Habsburg war…

Buckle up, Israel: It’s your turn to face the wrath of Obama

03/23/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
March 23, 2015: President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington during the White House Science Fair. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after…

Car-size salamander with toilet-seat head ruled ancient rivers

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(Steve Brusatte/Richard Butler/Octavio Mateus/Seb Steyer) A small-car-size “super salamander” with a toilet-seat-shaped head may have perished some 220 million to 230 million years ago alongside hundreds of its kin when its lake home dried up, researchers say. An international team…

Psychedelics not linked to mental disorders, study finds

03/11/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(Chris Kilham) In the ever-changing health landscape, sometimes methods and medicines are vilified for a time, only to emerge anew, bolstered by science. Such is the case with psychedelics, those potent mind-manifesting drugs that caused a furor in the 1960s…

Those bad old foods are good for you now

03/13/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What’s old is new again may be the simplest way to avoid whiplash when deciding what’s good to eat. Some foods that doctors were telling us to avoid just a few years ago are now being heartily embraced. Food science…

Possible carcinogen in Subway bread highlights need for stricter food regulations

02/20/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
A Subway sandwich shop logo is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York February 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri) Last week, Subway, the nationwide chain of sandwich shops, announced it would remove from its baked breads a possible carcinogen also…