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Harvard Study: This is What Meditation Literally Does to the Brain
Numerous studies have indicated the many physiological benefits of meditation, and the latest one comes from Harvard University.An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brains gr...
The Indian Sage Who Developed Atomic Theory 2,600 Years Ago
John Dalton (1766 – 1844), an English chemist and physicist, is the man credited today with the development of atomic theory. However, a theory of atoms was actually formulated2,500 years before Dalton by an Indian sage and philosopher, known as Acharya Kanad.Acharya Kanad was ...
NASA Probes Discover Invisible Force Shield Around Earth
Just some 7,200 miles above planet Earth, scientists have discovered an invisible force field that blocks satellites and astronauts – just as can be seen in Star Trek.In what continues to awe cosmic scientists, researchers have found that there is actually an invisible force fi...
2,800-Year-Old Artificial Pigment Puzzles Quantum Physicists
Han purple is an artificial pigment created by the Chinese over 2,500 years ago, which was used in wall paintings and to decorate the famous terracotta warriors, as well as ceramics, metal ware, and jewelry. The pigment is a technological wonder, made through a complex process of...
Scientific Study: Ancient Humans Bred with Completely Unknown Species
A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another species that is currently unknown t...
Artist Moves Water With Her Thoughts and Emotions
"Brain power" takes on a literal meaning when it comes to EEG painting, mind-responsive furniture, and the work of Lisa Park. Park combines EEG scanning with speakers and pools of water to visualize her thoughts and emotions.Last year, she exposed her brain patterns to the world ...
New Study Confirms: Our Universe is a Hologram
Are we living in a hologram? Energy fields are decoded by our brains into a 3D picture, to give the illusion of a physical world. Despite its apparent materiality, the universe is a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram. And some recent scientific ...
Immoral Science: A Scientist’s Plea for World Peace
Immoral Science: the World Behind the Security FenceThis article describes the events of my professional life, in particular my work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dow Corning, and the University of Crete.It explains why it was necessary for me to resign from the Lawrence Liv...
Earth is Still an Alien Planet: 5 Habitats We Haven’t Explored
There are a myraid of different programs looking for life out beyond our planets. Missions to Mars looking for water and bacteria, probes to Titan, Europa and Enceladus, the James Webb Space Telescope searching explanets for biosignatures or even SETI to find extraterrestrial rad...
‘Gut Feeling’ Proved by Scientists: Stomach is Our ‘Second Brain’
We have one mind, one brain and one collective center of thought, right? Wrong! Guess what? Human beings not only have a brain to make decisions for them, they also have another organ that helps govern what they do. No guys, it’s not the penis, so stop laughing.You know, when y...
Computer Scans Reveal King Tut’s Appearance and New Possible Cause of Death
The name “King Tut” gives birth to images of powerful royal families of Egypt, of course it does. Tutankhamun was the last great king of his lineage before military rule took over the land, and one of the youngest rulers at that. However, the way we visualize this young king ...
Scientists Demonstrate Remarkable Evidence of Dream Telepathy Between People
Dream telepathy suggests that human beings have the ability to communicate telepathically with another person while they are dreaming. This isn’t a new concept, scientific interest in telepathy dates back to the fathers of the psychoanalytic movement. Freud, for example, consid...