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Human Nicotine Receptors Respond the Same to Acetylcholine & Nicotine From Tobacco

Updated 4:37 AM EDT, Tue April 8, 2025

Did you know that the human body has nicotine receptors called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs)? These receptors respond to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh), a chemical messenger that plays a crucial role in the nervous system. Likewise, the nAChRs also respond to nicotine found in tobacco. Interestingly, nicotine from tobacco fits into these receptors like a…Continue reading Human Nicotine Receptors Respond the Same to Acetylcholine & Nicotine From Tobacco

Researchers Create Sound that Bends Through Space to Reach Just One Person

Updated 7:52 AM EDT, Thu April 3, 2025

Thanks to rapid advances in technology, the world we live in is extensively changing before our eyes. Soon, thanks to researchers at Penn State, you may be able to enjoy your favorite podcast or music without headphones and without disrupting those nearby. Using what they call “audible enclaves,” acoustics professor Yun Jing and his team…Continue reading Researchers Create Sound that Bends Through Space to Reach Just One Person

We Are Stardust

Updated 8:23 AM EDT, Thu March 27, 2025

The crucial elements for life on Earth—often called the building blocks of life—are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, abbreviated as CHNOPS. Elements are matter that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. On the periodic table, each element is distinguished by its atomic number, which describes the number of protons in the nuclei—the…Continue reading We Are Stardust

Roundup Trial Involving Married Couple with Cancer Nearing End

Posted at USRTK.org on April 22, 2019 by Carey Gillam As the latest Roundup cancer trial enters its fifth week today, lawyers for the married couple of Alva and Alberta Pilliod were nearing the end of the direct presentation of their case, which is being tried in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland, California. Both Pilliods developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma…Continue reading Roundup Trial Involving Married Couple with Cancer Nearing End

Updated 6:48 AM EDT, Mon April 22, 2019

Tracking The Vaccine Push of 2019

By Jefferey Jaxen It was founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and author Barbara Loe Fisher who recently used the term ‘vaccine culture war.’ In retrospect, 2019 will be looked upon as the year the culture war went hot. The American public has been treated to a pharmaceutically-focused shock and awe legislative push…Continue reading Tracking The Vaccine Push of 2019

Updated 3:29 PM EDT, Sun April 21, 2019

A deadly infection is sweeping some NY hospitals — but health officials won’t say where

If there’s a pharmaceutical product to profit from, ‘officials’ ramp up the fear campaign. When no solution exists, the public is on their own. Are NY and NJ hospitals and nursing homes warning patients about this germ? The NY Post writes: “A killer germ is raging through some New York hospitals and nursing homes. But…Continue reading A deadly infection is sweeping some NY hospitals — but health officials won’t say where

Updated 5:16 AM EDT, Sat April 20, 2019

NPR Spokane Interviews Del Bigtree on Vaccine Safety

Today on the Inland Journal podcast, we’ll hear two viewpoints about vaccines and vaccine safety. Part one is with Del Bigtree, the founder and CEO of the Informed Consent Action Network. He has challenged the federal government’s system of evaluating and approving vaccines. A few weeks ago, a listener contacted us to complain that parents…Continue reading NPR Spokane Interviews Del Bigtree on Vaccine Safety

Updated 6:03 AM EDT, Fri April 19, 2019

NYC leaders join calls for ban on Monsanto herbicide

By Carey Gilliam Two New York City council members introduced legislation today that would ban city agencies from spraying glyphosate-based herbicides and other toxic pesticides in parks and other public spaces. The move is the latest in a groundswell of concern over pesticide use, particularly exposures to weed killing products developed by Monsanto, which is…Continue reading NYC leaders join calls for ban on Monsanto herbicide

Updated 5:31 AM EDT, Fri April 19, 2019

U.S. Drops to 48th in World Press Freedom Index

Report from Reporters Without Borders: “US press freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment to the 1787 constitution, has been under increasing attack over the past few years, and the first year of President Donald J. Trump’s presidency has fostered further decline in journalists’ right to report. He has declared the press an “enemy of the…Continue reading U.S. Drops to 48th in World Press Freedom Index

Updated 5:27 PM EDT, Thu April 18, 2019