Scientists Creating a "Stay-Sober Pill": Fingers Crossed Nobody Dies
Scientists are hard at work creating a pill that will let you drink a whole lot of booze but limit the alcohol's effect on the brain. That sounds great, right? Wrong. It's a terrible, deadly idea.
View ArticleRacism-Curing Pills Are Apparently a Thing Now?
Researchers at Oxford University claim to have discovered a “cure” for racism, in pill form. It only (supposedly!) stamps out biologically-inherent discrimination, apparently, so if someone’s been...
View ArticleMysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China
This sewer runs along Zhengshang Road, in Zhengzhou, China. On April 21st, the strangest thing happened overnight: it got covered with pill capsules. Pill capsules everywhere, gazillions of them,...
View ArticleA Video Game Designed to Help Doctors to Recognise Drug Abuse
At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the doctors are training themselves with technology to better recognise the signs of addiction. A video game has been designed based on the research of Dr. Michael M....
View ArticleA Pill That Lets You Beat a Policeman’s Breathalyser Is Such a Bad Idea
I’ll admit, I’ve long dreamed of a pill that would instantly nuke all alcohol in your system, meaning you can drink all you want and then drive home (or roll into work fresh as a daisy), but...
View ArticleWhy Are Some Pills Little White Round Discs, While Others Are Big Red Torpedoes?
Pills, they’re the answer to every one of life’s little problems, or so the pharmaceutical companies would like us to think. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours, but have you ever...
View ArticleFirefighters Can Take Smart-Pills That Report Back Important Data About Their...
Firefighters run into flaming buildings for a living, It’s not exactly what you might call a safe job. And while they can tell generally how they’re doing by noting whether or not they are on fire at...
View ArticleBreakthrough Research Could Replace Insulin Shots With Pills
Whether you don’t like needles, or whether you really don’t like needles, there’s some good news on the horizon: a special “bioadhesive” coating that was just developed at Brown University is bringing...
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