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(Natural News) An evergreen plant that grows abundantly throughout Southeast Asia contains a powerful compound that outperforms a clinically-used drug against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a study in the Journal of Natural Compounds revealed. The plant, known as willow-leaved justicia, is native to China and is found to grow extensively in India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. Researchers said a newly-identified... |
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(Natural News) In the Marvel comic books, Steve Rogers is a character that transforms from a rather weak and skinny man into a supersoldier with the help of gene editing technology. For decades since fans were officially introduced to Captain America in 1941, this fictional character has fascinated people throughout the country and across the... |
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(Natural News) A Canadian study concludes, yet again, that urbanization influences the development of intestinal microbiomes. The gut bacteria plays a direct role in the occurrence of illnesses such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These are lifelong conditions which can cause chronic diarrhea, bloody stool, weight loss, and... |
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(Natural News) Millennials (or Gen Y) are obsessed with beauty. Despite the generation’s relatively lower average student income, their devotion to purchasing high-priced beauty products is striking. Gen Y shoppers spend about 25 percent more on body scrubs, shampoos, conditioners, styling gels or mousses, and suntan products than the average American shopper. Furthermore, 75 percent... |
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(Natural News) In case you missed part one of our Kevin Lawton interview on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, you may want to go back and watch it. Today, we publish part two of the interview, covering all the following topics: – How Ethereum works, using “Ether” fuel to pay for the running of small programs across... |
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(Natural News) President Donald J. Trump has learned some hard lessons about the way the Washington swamp works in the six months he’s been president. But at the same time, he also seems to have learned when and how to apply pressure of his own in order to get done the things he was elected... |
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(Natural News) In some of the nation’s most violent cities, far-Left Democratic mayors and city counsels continue to do all they can to make it more difficult for the vast majority of their law-abiding citizens to protect themselves with foolish gun control laws. Despite their efforts, however — and thanks to recent federal and Supreme... |
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(Natural News) After undergoing three rounds of chemotherapy and four stem cell transplants and still finding herself sick and weak, blood cancer patient, Dieneke Ferguson, believed she reached the end of her tether. She was told she had exhausted all her options. “Nothing worked: there was just too much cancer….there was nothing else I could... |
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(Natural News) It’s one of the most controversial issues in modern agriculture: persistent crop chemicals of a highly toxic nature that spread unabated beyond the field. The experts call this “drift,” and one herbicide in particular that’s causing major problems in this regard is dicamba, also known as “Xtend,” a broad-leafed Monsanto weedkiller product commonly... |
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(Natural News) Some voters in California are so adamant about demanding more free stuff from the government that they’ve resorted to threatening to kill legislators who don’t back massive “nanny state” entitlements such as free, unlimited health care for all California citizens. State lawmakers recently attempted to push through a new law that would have... |
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(Natural News) Anyone who speaks out about chem-trails is immediately dismissed as a paranoid conspiracy theorist. No one is allowed to question what they see in the sky, even when multiple white gridlines are expanding and falling. Why would the government spray chemicals across the sky and poison the people in the process? Even if some... |
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(Natural News) When parents take their children to the family doctor, they expect to receive treatments that align with the latest in sound science. But a new study has revealed that most doctors in North America rely on consensus rather than proof, at least when it comes to prescribing anti-seizure medications. Published in the June... |
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(Natural News) It is considered the most effective treatment to fight cancer, but chemotherapy can do more harm than good, according to a shocking new study published in Science Translational Medicine. The extremely aggressive therapy, which kills both cancerous and healthy cells, has been found to increase the chance of cancer cells migrating to other... |
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(Natural News) Unbeknownst to most Americans, there is a conference that takes place in Las Vegas every single year that draws the most competent, capable hackers in the world. For four days they meet to discuss and demonstrate the latest techniques they’ve discovered (and likely used) to essentially disrupt as much of modern society as... |
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(Natural News) With 47 million people around the world suffering from dementia and 115 million people expected to have the illness by 2050, finding ways to prevent and treat it is a matter of urgency. When the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference was held this year, many of the experts on hand were a lot more... |
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(Natural News) Earlier this month in the Pyrenees, an investigation confirmed that 169 sheep threw themselves over the edge of a cliff in a desperate attempt to escape the wrath of a pursuant brown bear. Authorities said that they were able to confirm that it was a bear that chased them over the edge because... |
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(Natural News) It’s no secret that human activity can contribute a great deal to damaging the environment, but did you know that you are hurting our planet even in death? The current methods of cremation that are offered in California are not environmentally friendly enough for some people’s tastes, and the state senate is now... |
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(Natural News) Eating mangoes may hold potential in preventing metabolic disorders and diabetes, according to four separate studies presented at the 2017 Experimental Biology Conference. In one of the studies, a team of researchers at the Texas A&M University’s Department of Nutrition and Food Science examined how lean and obese individuals absorbed, metabolized, and excreted gallic acid, galloyl glycosides, and gallotannin following mango... |
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(Natural News) You can easily lower your IQ by spending two to three hours driving every day, warn scientists. Researchers have found that sedentary behavior, such as sitting behind the wheel for hours at a time, can steadily reduce intelligence. The new study suggests that regularly driving for more than a few hours a day... |
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(Natural News) Geologists now believe that a massive volcanic eruption was the cause of the late Ordovician mass extinction. This is the second recorded biodiversity depletion out of five that scientists have recorded. Previous research has shown that an asteroid impact caused the fifth mass extinction, whereas the third and fourth mass extinctions were brought... |
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(Natural News) Since the EPA started promoting the “land application” of sewage sludge in 1993, millions of tons of this toxic biosludge have been spread on the farmland and public parks in our nation. It also sometimes makes its way to the organic compost and fertilizer section of your favorite garden supply store. What happens... |
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(Natural News) As people emerge from their homes to enjoy the sunny weather, so too do the various insects creep out of the figurative and literal woodwork. It seems that summer just wouldn’t be summer without mosquitoes, ants, and flies skulking about. These bugs are the bane of every outdoor barbecue and woodsy jaunt, as... |
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(Natural News) According to David Wright, physicist and co-director of the UCS Global Security Program, North Korea’s latest ICBM — tested just days ago — has the capability to strike almost half of the largest U.S. cities, including Chicago, Denver and possibly even New York City. As reported by Zero Hedge, North Korea now states:... |
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(Natural News) With lots of kids still lacking basic reading and math skills, the educational establishment is apparently incorporating a gender unicorn handout into public school curriculum in some areas. The gender unicorn is a “sexually ambiguous mythical creature,” The Daily Caller reported. Oregonian columnist Elizabeth Hovde explains how the gender unicorn, which kind of resembles Barney,... |
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(Natural News) There is no question about it: The academic far-Left has lost their collective minds and is now actively trolling for things to be upset/angry/offended about, and this is especially true for many of today’s college and university campuses. As reported by Campus Reform, a pair of feminist professors who teach geography — yes,... |
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(Natural News) Backers of marijuana use for recreational purposes won another court victory this week as a state court ruled that police cannot stop or arrest someone just because they smell pot in a suspect’s vehicle. As reported by The Grand Junction Sentinel in Colorado, indications by drug-sniffing police dogs that there are controlled substances... |
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(Natural News) Last December, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser officially signed into law the Death and Dignity Act of 2016, which essentially allows doctors and physicians to give terminally ill patients above the age of 18 life-ending medication. Now, roughly seven months later, that law is finally being implemented. Of course, there are some regulations.... |
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(Natural News) The next time your boss asks you to do something you’d rather not, just remember that it could always be worse: you could be working for Three Square Market. The Wisconsin firm, which designs software that is used in office complex break room markets, has found itself in the spotlight after announcing its... |
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(Natural News) Clean eating has become a way of life for many people around the world. This way of eating focuses on consuming whole foods that are not processed or refined; this can be anything that is as close to its natural form as possible, like fresh produce and raw nuts. This is an undeniably... |
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(Natural News) You might have heard that eating a plant-based diet can help ward off heart disease, but not just any plant-based diet will do. In fact, if you pair all those vegetables with refined grains and sugars, you could be doing more harm than good. In a study of more than 200,000 Americans that... |
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(Natural News) Chessington World of Adventures, a theme park, zoo and sealife center at Chessington, U.K., was recently accused of lying to its customers and remaining mum about a recent fox attack that killed eight of its Humboldt Penguins. According to reports, the attack happened at the end of June when an urban fox infiltrated the penguins’... |
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(Natural News) A study that was recently published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior showed that chimpanzees, which the theory of evolution says are where men are descended from, exhibit “cumulative culture”, or the ability to build on the work of others. Until now, it was thought that only humans, baboons, and pigeons had this... |
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(Natural News) If a natural disaster such as a hurricane or a tornado is coming your way, it will inevitably cause a significant amount of damage, but at least you could have the chance to get out of harms way. But how would you evacuate in the event of a natural disaster from outer space,... |
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(Natural News) Fake science guru Neil deGrasse Tyson will have his voice featured in a new documentary film entitled Food Evolution that claims to provide an independent analysis of the facts on modern food. But a closer look reveals that the entire project is more of an advertising campaign for the chemical industry than it... |
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(Natural News) On Thursday, July 20, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to social media and made an announcement that left many just as confused as they were shocked. “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 minutes,” Musk wrote on Twitter. In a follow up... |
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(Natural News) There are a number of things that could get you a visit from child protective services. Forgetting to feed your kids for three days straight, for example, would undoubtedly result in the CPS knocking on your front door. The same goes for doing physical harm to your children and just generally not carrying... |
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(Natural News) Well, it looks like at least one government is trying to do its best to improve the health prospects of its citizens. The Canadian government has just announced the launch of an app which will reward users with loyalty points for making healthier lifestyle choices. While the scheme is far from perfect, and... |
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(Natural News) Drinking moderately in a social setting may improve short-term memory, says a scientific team from the University of Exeter. The researchers wrote on Scientific Reports that the overarching assumption that any form of alcohol intake is detrimental to health may need to be reconsidered. While excessive drinking is discouraged all throughout, social drinking... |
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(Natural News) So-called “feminism” has long since stopped being about the promotion of equality for women. Far from its founding roots in the 1960s and early 1970s, when women most certainly did need a stronger, unified voice both politically and culturally, the movement today has been hijacked by far-Left caricatures pushing a Marxist agenda filled... |
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(Natural News) At the recent Global Family Planning Summit in London, Melinda Gates, wife of the billionaire leftist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $375 million to organizations that provide contraceptives and abortions over the next four years, according to the U.K.-based magazine Marie Claire. Although... |
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(Natural News) Future planning was once believed to be a skill that only humans and great apes can manage, but now researchers have discovered that ravens share this capability. In fact, they are better at preparing for future events than 4-year-old children. Scientists from Sweden’s Lund University trained the ravens to open a puzzle box... |
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(Natural News) According to researchers, bullets travel up to twenty percent less when they make contact with breast implants, which could mean the different between life and death. Over the years, many women have even backed up this claim, arguing that their breast implants saved their life by protecting the vital organs against a speeding bullet.... |
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(Natural News) Could you imagine living in a country that made technological advancements that weren’t at the expense of your individual right to privacy? What would it be like if the Fourth Amendment was actually respected, and each new idea for an invention started off with the simple question, “Is this going to infringe on... |
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(Natural News) It was said to be an historic moment when Towson University Debate Team members Ameena Ruffin (class of 2015) and Korey Johnson (class of 2016) won the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championship back in 2014 – the first ever African-American women’s team to do so. But when video footage of what... |
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(Natural News) This may seem like a simple question for our long-time readers, but many new readers are asking, “How do I avoid GMOs?” It’s not just the GMOs themselves, of course, that people wish to avoid. It’s also the toxic, cancer-causing herbicide known as glyphosate that frequently saturates both genetically engineered crops and non-GMO... |
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(Natural News) Science! Scientists, geologists, agriculturalists, climatologists, astronomers, historians, archeologists, biologists, oncologists and geoscientists are so proud to exclaim that their field of study has research and facts to back up their favorite conversations about climate change, GMOs, vaccines, chemotherapy and infectious disease, but what if they all found out today that the majority of... |
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(Natural News) It’s long been presented as an alternative to fake fiat currencies like the Federal Reserve Note (often referred to as the “dollar”) because there’s a limited amount of it and it’s completely decentralized with no involvement from central banks. But the popular online “cryptocurrency” known as Bitcoin may just be another form of... |
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(Natural News) The water supply of a million Central California residents is contaminated with what is considered one of the most powerful carcinogens on the planet, and now the state is making a move to try to get the problem under control as the lawsuits against the companies responsible for the contamination continue to pile... |
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(Natural News) Should humanity become extinct in the immediate future, it won’t be by our own hands or through the wrath of nature. A number of experts has claimed that our demise shall be brought on by super-strong robots. What was once created to make our lives easier could very well “threaten our existence” in... |
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(Natural News) A spate of teen suicides going as far back as 2015 has been linked to the Russian Internet game, the Blue Whale Challenge. According to WND.com, the social media game has caused the suicide deaths of hundreds of teenagers the world over. Of those deaths, at least 130 have occurred in Russia alone,... |
