Yearly Archives: 2014
Neymar’s brain on auto-pilot – Japan neurologists
August 6th, 2014
Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese neurologists.
Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer
August 4th, 2014
Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer
Study Reveals How Sleep Removes Toxic Waste from the Brain
July 24th, 2014
Although we don’t know exactly why, there is no question that sleep is crucial for brain and overall health. Without proper sleep, the chance of disease and stress increases notably. Now, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center ...
The Effects Of Obesity You Can’t Always See: 5 Major Organs Damaged By Excess Body Fat
July 16th, 2014
Obesity doesn’t just add layers of fat around your thighs and torso. Some of the greatest consequences of poor diet and lack of exercise occur inside your body, out of sight and too often out of mind. We can’t ...
Friends Have More DNA in Common than Strangers
July 16th, 2014
People may unsuspectingly choose friends who have some DNA sequences in common with them, a new analysis finds. Researchers compared gene variations between nearly 2,000 people who were not biologically related, and found that friends had more gene variations in ...
Where Is God Located In the Brain? Importance of Religion Is Related To Thickness Of The Cerebral Cortex
July 16th, 2014
Made entirely of gray matter and distinguished by its characteristic folds, the cerebral cortex is the brain's outermost layer covering the hemispheres. Now, researchers from New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University found the importance of religion or ...
Does Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?
July 14th, 2014
This is the eighth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and the author of the ...
Study cracks how the brain processes emotions
July 12th, 2014
Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new study by Cornell University neuroscientist Adam Anderson. “We discovered that ...
Creationism Banned From UK Schools
June 30th, 2014
The United Kingdom government has banned the teaching of creationism as a scientific theory in free schools and academies, which are the equivalent of a ‘public’ school in the United States. The move was done in the interests of ...
Whirling Wi-Fi: Vibrant images reveal how wireless networks sweep and surround us
June 20th, 2014
A student has produced a series of vivid photographs that reveal what the networks that keep us connected to the web look like. The images, created by Luis Hernan from Newcastle University, show spectres of Wi-Fi sweeping and swirling ...
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