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A viral story claims that a leaked 1965 DARPA program called Operation Lazarus—or Project Lazarus—used precise electromagnetic frequencies to activate DNA repair, regenerate cells and…
Read full entryOn 23 March 1989, electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that a tabletop cell containing palladium and heavy water had produced more heat than ordinary chemistry…
Read full entryWilhelm Reich’s story contains two questions that are often mistakenly treated as one. The first is whether the United States government suppressed his work.
Read full entryThe “Hutchison Effect” is the name given to a collection of extraordinary events reported by Canadian experimenter John Hutchison beginning around 1979.
Read full entryStanley Allen Meyer became famous in the 1980s and 1990s for claiming that he could run an internal-combustion vehicle primarily on water. His public showpiece was a modified dune buggy.
Read full entryClaims that permanent magnets can power a water pump indefinitely deserve careful treatment because they sit beside a completely real and valuable technology.
Read full entryThe EMDrive was proposed by British aerospace engineer Roger Shawyer in 2001 as a way to turn microwave energy directly into thrust without expelling propellant.
Read full entryViktor Schauberger was an Austrian forester, naturalist and inventor who believed that modern engineering fought against nature’s preferred forms of movement.
Read full entryMarcel Joseph Vogel was a prolific American inventor whose established technical career and later metaphysical research are often presented as though they carried equal scientific…
Read full entryThe Searl Effect Generator (SEG) is a proposed machine of concentric stationary rings surrounded by cylindrical magnetic rollers.
Read full entryCorentin Louis Kervran (1901–1983) was a French engineer who argued that living organisms can transform one chemical element into another at ordinary temperatures.
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Practices at the edge of accepted medicine — what has been studied, what has not, and where the record ends.
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Techniques and instruments that were once in use and later abandoned, misplaced or superseded.
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Suppressed records, contested chronologies and the politics of what gets written down.
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Cosmologies, rites and symbol systems recorded across the ancient world.
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