In an effort to resolve the mystery of what happens in the brains of individuals that report near death experiences, a team of researchers with the University of Michigan have discovered mysterious bursts of what appear to be conscious activity in the brainwave recordings of two patients as they died.read more
A medical ethics group is calling for an investigation into statements made by Elon Musk regarding the circumstances surrounding the deaths of numerous test animals at the billionaire’s biotech startup Neuralink; Musk says that the primates that had died were already terminally ill, but the animals’ veterinary records, along withread more
In 1976, NASA’s Viking landers conducted a series of biological experiments designed to determine whether or not there was life present in the soil on Mars’ surface, the only such tests conducted on another planet. The results of the tests, at least at the time, perplexed the scientists in charge of the Viking landers’read more
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began releasing filtered wastewater from the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on August 24, 12 years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three of the plant’s reactors. Despite assurances from TEPCO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the treated water being dischargedread more