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Is hypnotism the key to our woes? According to the BBC that could be a possibility

When I was 20, I went to a hypnotist in Auckland, New Zealand, to try to give up smoking. The hypnotist was an old guy,...

US nuclear fusion is a breakthrough for the chosen

American scientists have achieved a major nuclear energy milestone but questions remain about how the technology can be applied. The United States Department of Energy...

Goodbye 2022—The end of the impossible dream, in fact a technology nightmare

Make 2023 your turning point. Phew!! What a year. Aren’t we all glad to say sayonara. But what drove the events of 2022? What can...

Scientists point to ozone hole anomaly

Climate change or volcanoes may be responsible, researchers have suggested. The ozone hole over Antarctica is closing a month later than usual for the third...

Guy Hatchard: Is society polarised or simply disconnected?

An article published in Nature Cardiovascular Research reports incidence of POTS—Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome following vaccination. POTS is a condition that causes your heart to beat faster...

Guy Hatchard: Are people programmable?

Sometimes you find things out that are fascinating but utterly frightening and repugnant. Advances in the field of epigenetics have focused on the role of...

Guy Hatchard: The urgent need to keep up with published Covid findings

Health experts appearing on or writing in mainstream media to discuss Covid are reassuring the public that they are keeping up with science publishing...

Guy Hatchard: What is science and who is an expert?

Last night we heard the decision of the High Court Judge in the baby W case, who ruled that the state should enforce a...

A New Comprehensive History of the Biotechnology Era

Introduction It is the year 23 PB (post biotechnology) and 2076 in that old reckoning that few of us use these days. Most historians of...

Police recover 23 million year old fossil taken from Little Wanganui Beach

Police have this morning recovered a fossil that was taken from Little Wanganui Beach over Labour Weekend. A search warrant was carried out at a...

Guy Hatchard: After millions of years of natural evolution Humans decided to try biotechnology

There are 37 trillion cells that make up the human body. Each of these cells contains the original genetic information from the very first cell....

Tap water ‘recycled’ ten times before you drink it – study

An economics professor devised a formula to calculate how many times water has been consumed. The tap water people drink in 2022 is the same...

GLOBE – Global Legislation Outlawing Biotechnology Experimentation launches

GLOBE is an informal alliance of scientists, doctors, individuals and groups wishing to protect populations from the impact of biotechnology experiments. The pandemic has highlighted...

World’s largest particle collider at risk over EU energy crunch

Scientists at the European nuclear research organization (CERN) fear they might have to shut down particle accelerators to save energy. The European energy crisis is...

Researchers Discover Origin of the Black Death

For years, researchers have been attempting to trace the origin of the Black Death, a bubonic plague that spread across the world via Oriental...

What Killed the Megalodon? Scientists Say Great White Shark Out-Competed Fearsome Fish

It’s terrifying to think that a better hunter than the largest shark even known to exist might still be alive today, but according to...

‘Complete Shock’: Skull Estimated to be 8,000 Years Old Found in Minnesota River

The long withstanding megadrought in Nevada and much of the Western United States revealed two bodies in Lake Mead after the drought depleted its...

Is technology destroying our capacity to think clearly?

Like Robert Frost, looking out from the distant perspective of a remote rural property, we wonder about the future of our world. Writing in 1920...

Name is Balkanatolia: Scientists Discover Lost Continent That Changed Europe’s Animal Population

According to researchers, the continent is now mostly underwater at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. But during the Eocene period, an era...

How realistic is the prospect of a ‘quantum apocalypse’?

A new generation of fear entrepreneurs in the IT industry are promoting anxieties and fatalism about the threat quantum computing poses to the future...

Gene technology: does it have a history of safety?

Stuck in a parallel universe:—at our local school a doctor arrived to address the student body and the staff about Covid-19 inoculation. Reassuringly the doctor...

Patient gets animal heart in ‘breakthrough’ surgery

The patient consented to the pig heart after being rejected for a human heart transplant. An American hospital patient in the state of Maryland is...

Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found in egg

A perfectly preserved fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg has been rediscovered at the back of Chinese museum, having been...

The compulsion of myths—we are in extraordinary times, but of whose making?

Our modern education system, the popular digests of science, the exciting film fantasies have created a dream vision of the future that rests easy...

Watch: The TikTok Professor – How a 70-year-old goes viral on TikTok

In this video by RT Documentary, meet Nikolay Milovanov aged 70 and he’s taking TikTok by storm with fun videos about maths and physics. He...

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