Science

Scientists To Cure Malaria By Microwaving You (Wait, What?)

Malaria kills almost a million people every year and makes another 250 million people very, very sick. Soon we may be able to instantly cure the scourge the same way you heat up your sad, frozen dinner-for-one.


June 3, 2011
Mobile

Stephen Colbert Solves This Whole Mobile Phone Radiation Problem

Your mobile phone is killing you! Maybe. OK, not really. But if you’re still worried about the microwave radiation pulsing from your handset, Stephen Colbert has the perfect solution for you. Assuming you’ve got certain resources handy.


June 2, 2011
Science

List Of Other Things As Cancer-y As Phones, According To WHO

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer now considers mobile phones usage to be a possible, or “Class 2B”, carcinogen. Here’s everything else they consider to be a 2B carcinogen, otherwise presented without comment:


May 18, 2010
Science

Huge WHO Mobile Phones And Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

The World Health Organisation studied almost 13,000 mobile phone users over the course of 10 years to determine whether or not there’s a link between mobile phones and cancer. Their results? Inconclusive!