Pharmacology

Glandular Supplements A 'Waste Of Money' In Bodybuilding

Glandular nutritional supplements, sold on the premise that they can help bodybuilders, have been slammed as "bogus" by the founder of a British nutritional company.  The supplements in question include those containing the trace mineral Boron a ...

Article - Newswire - Jun 29 2011 - 11:25am

I Am Going Nuts, Really

Over all that quantum physics lately, I have totally neglected a much more important issue: our happiness. And I mean true happiness of course, not the fake stuff you get from a loving family and friends as the slave drivers try to make you believe is wha ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:04am

Nutty Pictures

“ I am going Nuts ” introduced a misunderstood little gem, the Nutmeg, and expounded a little on its preparation. Pure myristicine without safrole, elemicin, and likely unknown ones inside nutmeg, does not result in the same effects as freshly ground nutm ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:06am

Nutmeg Liquor

“ I am going Nuts ” introduced a misunderstood gem, the Nutmeg, and mentioned the problem of the nuts being very diverse, as you can see in the picture below, and thus a little difficult to dose. One solution is to produce liquor, or in other words, perfo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 2:06pm

Gloating And Envy- Oxytocin Is Not All Cuddling

The hormone oxytocin may be the "cuddle chemical" but recent research has found that oxytocin can promote negative emotions too. Salespeople love oxytocin- they think if they spray it on customers will trust them more.  Mothers bond with babies d ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2011 - 4:54pm

Like People Predicting The End Of The World, Animal Activists Will Eventually Be Right

If you are a European who might be allergic to some compounds in cosmetics, you are out of luck.  In 2009, outside a few exceptions, the European Union banned the use of animals in cosmetic testing- though they still allow it in plenty of other things.  He ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 8 2011 - 6:58pm

Why Dark Beer Is Better- More Iron

Researchers from the University of Valladolid (Spain) have answered one of science's most pressing questions- which beer is better, dark or pale? They analyzed 40 brands of beer and found that dark beer has more free iron than pale and non-alcoholic ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:18pm

Drugs- Where Gender Discrimination Makes Sense

The metabolic profiles of blood serum have revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women, say scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München who have concluded that there is a need for gender-specific therapies.  ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2011 - 8:58pm

Coffee- Now 40X More Awesome Than Before, Thanks To Science

If you're a fan of "Big Trouble In Little China" (and if you are not, either go rent it and then come back or go read "People" like you should be doing instead of visiting Science 2.0) (1) next to "Chinese people got a lotta H ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2011 - 10:09am

Queen Hatshepsut May Have Been Killed By Her Medicine

Pharaoh Hatshepsut lived around 1450 B.C.  A tiny flash owned by the queen, a flacon, which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn may have held a deadly secret for 3,500 years, according to Head of the c ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2011 - 5:28pm