(Natural News) The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used call options to purchase millions of dollars worth of Microsoft stock last month ahead of a big new government contract. According to an April 9 filing with the House clerk, Paul Pelosi exercised call options and paid $1.95 million to buy 15,000 shares of Microsoft […]

(Natural News) Physicists from the University of Arkansas (UArk) have successfully developed a circuit capable of generating electricity from the natural thermal motion of graphene. “An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors,” said lead researchers Paul Thibado, a professor of physics […]

(Natural News) Ethereum, one of the biggest cryptocurrencies after bitcoin, consumes massive amounts of energy to run its network. This is despite efforts from its creators to reduce its energy consumption a few years back. A new report from Digiconomist‘s Ethereum Energy Consumption Index shows that Etherum experienced a massive spike in energy consumption starting […]

(Natural News) Oplopanax elatus, commonly known as nakai, is an herb native to northern China that is known for its anti-cancer effects, especially against colorectal cancer (CRC). But questions remain on whether or not the human gut microbiota interferes with nakai’s anti-CRC effects. To address this, a team of researchers from China’s National Clinical Research Center […]

(Natural News) A team of scientists from Marymount University, Texas Tech University and Iran’s University of Guilan discovered that pumpkin seed oil (PSO) can potentially be used to delay the onset and progression of hypertension in post-menopausal women. Their findings were published in the journal Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. The researchers conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 23 postmenopausal women […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia tested the effects of two growth-promoting bacteria, namely, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Azospirillum brasilense, on the yield of three potato varieties. Their findings were published in the journal Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science. The researchers planted three potato varieties with different longevity of growth periods – “Morgana” […]

(Natural News) Fatigue is tiredness from physical or mental exertion wherein a person’s physical or mental capacities are reduced. Such fatigue not only causes a person’s performance to deteriorate, but it can also lead to illnesses such as liver dysfunction and diabetes. To combat fatigue, South Korean researchers are looking to an unlikely food: aged garlic. Scientists […]

(Natural News) Staphylococcus aureus is one of the primary pathogens responsible for prosthetic joint infection (PJI). This is a huge problem as certain strains of S. aureus are resistant to conventional antibacterial treatments. With this in mind, a group of researchers from China investigated whether berberine can be used as a treatment for PJI-related S. aureus infection. […]

(Natural News) Researchers from South Korea’s National Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Korea University explored the potential of low temperature-aged garlic to reduce fatigue. Their findings were published in the Journal of Medicinal Food. The researchers aged garlic at 60 C for 60 days to obtain low temperature-aged garlic (LTAG). LTAG was peeled and then processed with 70 percent […]

(Natural News) Infertility is a health problem that humanity has been dealing with since ancient times. Around the world, traditional healers have developed various ways of dealing with this problem. Now, a group of Palestinian researchers are tapping into this knowledge in hopes of finding new treatments for infertility. Ethnopharmacological surveys are one of the most reliable […]