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In a recent experiment, a person in India said “hola” and “ciao” to three other people in France. Today, the Web, smartphones and international calling might make that not seem like an impressive feat, but it was. The greetings were n...
There is an honest question to be asked whether shamanism, as it is presented to us in the West as ideology or world view, actually exists today. What does exist are a number of shamanic practices that differ from place to culture, fr...
What if you could ease chronic pain, lower your blood pressure and improve other health issues simply with the power of your mind?
Proponents of an alternative therapy called biofeedback believe that you can train yourself to do...
Imagine a treatment that involves sitting in a chair, with electrodes attached to your skull. The electrodes are attached to a computer that measure activity in your brain and then send feedback to regulate your brainwaves. Are you ro...
Pervasive neurotechnology is a growing area of neuroscience, developed to enhance the brain’s performance and cognitive health. These technologies are non-invasive, meaning they do not involve surgical procedures or ingesting drugs an...
A research from UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute shows a bird's tune can be changed -- to the syllable -- by activating and deactivating a neuronal pathway in charge of assisting the mind determine whether a vocal...
They’re teleporting through the streets. Physicists have teleported quantum information across the cities of Hefei, China and Calgary, Canada.
While quantum teleportation – the remote transfer of quantum information from one loc...
This is wild: a team of Israeli scientists developed a contraption that uses a person’s brain waves to remotely control DNA-based nanorobots — while the nanobots were inside a living cockroach. When prompted by a human thought, the c...
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg isn't content with people sharing their every move, photo and relationship status update - now he's after your thoughts as well.
During a Facebook Live Q&A , the social media boss sai...
For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France.
Research led by experts at Harvard Unive...
The first brain-to-brain telepathy-like communication between two participants via the Internet has been performed by University of Washington researchers.*
The experiment used a question-and-answer game. The goal is for the “in...
Books about science and especially computer science often suffer from one of two failure modes. Treatises by scientists sometimes fail to clearly communicate insights. Conversely, the work of journalists and other professional writers...
Holistic and neuroscience are not two words that one would generally think go together. But, the revolution in technology and computers, along with greater research and new techniques in the last decade have allowed holistic clinical ...
In 1999, The Matrix introduced your neighbor, your dad, and pretty much every hacky-sacking college kid in the country to the idea that the real world around us … might not be so real.
In the film, our trenchcoated protagonist N...
Your thoughts are your own, right? Perhaps not. New technology is bringing that day closer when the unscrupulous may actually be able to hack human thoughts.
It raises a number of new ethical concerns for this brave new world we...
Are you scared of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Do you believe the warnings from folks like Prof. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others? Is AI the greatest tool humanity will ever create, or are we “summoning the demon”? To quot...
Neurofeedback, a process of healing the brain through using its own signals, is gaining traction in the treatment of mental illness.
Treatment using the cutting-edge technology is being expanded at CooperRiis Healing Community u...