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What if you were living in a pond? You are a fish with eyes on either side of your head and all you are familiar with is the underwater world of sediment and vegetation and other fish swimming next to you. The sunlight comes in, dimmer and refracted, t…
Supporters of the Law of Attraction appeal to a wide range of disciplines in order to explain and back up the intuitive principles they trust.
For instance, research in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and evolutionary biology could all be us…
1. Smart drugs
2. Food for thought
3. The Mozart effect
This goes out to every person struggling with anxiety.
To every beautiful soul on whom stress has taken its toll.
To every single being who just wants to be free.
You are not alone. You are not weak. You deserve to get better. You des…
How to make New Year's Resolutions Work For You
Every year many people make resolutions to improve their life, their habits, their business.
And every year the majority of us fail miserably at keeping those resolutions…
Yet another survey has revealed surprisingly large numbers of people using drugs to boost their mental powers. What should be done?
An artist visualization of the star S0-2 as it passes by the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. Credit: Nicolle R. Fuller, National Science Foundation
Detailed UCLA-led analysis of the star’s orbit near supermassive black hole gives …
Suicide v’s My children
I sat like a puppet on a string I looked up at the rope
The smell of fresh washing in the air and the sun shining through the window so brightly I should have been joyful, but instead I could sm…
Nikola Tesla did countless mysterious experiments, but he was a whole other mystery on his own. Almost all genius minds have a certain obsession. Nikola Tesla had a pretty big one!
He was walking around a block repeatedly for three times before e…
Is there a correlation between your biome and your BMI? In her new book, Why Diets Make Us Fat, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt sheds light on this tangled, cryptic relationship.
There seems to be little doubt that the diet book of 2016 is Sandra Aa…
Look around you. What do you see?
Other people going about their business? Rooms with tables and chairs? Nature with its sky, grass and trees? All that stuff, it's really there, right? Even if you were to disappear right now — poof! — the rest…
In a rare reversal, archaeologists have determined that a Maya book written almost 900 years ago is genuine — after decades of believing it was fake. The Grolier Codex was so named because it was first displayed in 1971 at the book lovers' Grolier Club…
A Japanese Nobel prize winner has finally proven how staying away from food can actually help you live healthy.
Fasting has two very good benefits for us. Japanese scientist Dr Yoshinori Oshsumi’s Nobel prize-winning work on autophagy has shown h…
Would you lie to a robot to avoid hurting its feelings?
If you’re like one participant in a recent study, carried out by researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London, the answer is a resounding “yes.” In the experiment…
Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call "beautiful" or "aesthetic" are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave a…
Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level.
The flight or fight response — the natural r…
Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties.
If there’s any subject that perfectly encapsulates the idea that science is hard to understand, it’s quantum physics. Scie…
The holographic universe principle suggests that we're living in a simulated reality. Essentially, it claims our physical world is nothing more than a detailed illusion, and while this is unlikely, the idea does have some interesting science supporting…
Mindfulness is defined as an attention training, which can benefit health and general well-being. There is a lot scientific research confirming it.
In this article we will present you another type of attention training, called Open Focus. Combini…
A sensational discovery has been made by experts as scientists have found that the human brain is home to structures and shapes that have up to 11 dimensions. Neuroscientists welcome the discovery saying: “We found a world that we had never imagined.”<…
Corporations intent on making employees more engaged and creative are focusing on happiness as the answer. Chief Happiness Officer is an
Only decades into our “age of cosmology” — the moment when we earned the technological rights to peer deep into our cosmic home — we’ve learned that we live in a mega-palace of a universe. And we’ve also found something odd. We seem to be the only ones…
Solar energy and cosmic radiation have electrical influences over a multitude of human activities including human health. Mainstream science has begun to accept these effects, and to investigate the topic in a serious way, but the science itself is by …
Researchers are still unsure about the consciousness with questions about why we have it and how we have it always being asked.
One theory is that consciousness is made …