Laughter is an incredible experience. When it genuinely happens it has the power to change the complexion of an entire day, or at the very least the moment in which it occurs. Whether we laugh in reaction to something comical…
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Spiders On Drugs.
Most orb-web spiders spin their webs in the wee hours of the morning. For zoologist H.M. Peters, who back in 1948 was studying spider webs at the University of Tubingen in Germany, this was annoying as it meant he had…
Research Mapping Human Emotions Shows Strong Mind Body Connection.
Love makes us warm all over, and now scientists are creating body maps to prove it.
Crowdfunded Tesla Tower Project Seeks To Recreate Inventor’s Wireless Energy Transmission System.
By many accounts, the iconic inventor Nikola Tesla was years ahead of his time. His ideas for a worldwide wireless communications system, and a wireless energy transmission technology, never got the traction they perhaps may have deserved during his lifetime, and…
Simulation Shows Time Travel is Possible by Australian Physicists.
Physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia have used photons – single particles of light – to simulate quantum particles travelling through time and study their behaviour.They were hoping to find out more about whether time travel would be…
Scientific Studies on What Psychedelics Really Do to the Human Brain.
It turns out that psychedelics aren’t just good for turning into an elf and jousting a car. Psychiatrists, psychologists and specialists in addiction and recovery from traumatic experiences have been investigating the use of hallucinogens in treatment programs, and the…
Gamers are More Social and Educated Than Non-Gamers.
If you had to visualize someone who self-describes as a “gamer,” what would you see? A 13-year-old boy who doesn’t have many friends? A college student who prefers playing games on his futon to going to class? An overweight guy…
Scientists Have Found That Dna Can Hold Memories for Generations.
New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. During the tests they learned that that mice can pass on learned information…