Want more followers on Twitter? Followers are Twitter "gold" but unless you are a celebrity or part of the "Twitterati" they are pretty hard to get. Georgia Tech with 522,368 tweets in hand found a few Twitter secrets. A research team led by Eric Gilbert, assistant...
New groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibres. These C fibres transmit low-grade sensory information over very long distances by using Merkel cells as intermediaries. Dr. Morry Silberstein of the...
In a study from Loma Linda University Health, presented at the Experimental Biology conference meetings in San Diego, joyful or mirthful laughter was shown to produce brain wave frequencies similar to those seen among people who reach what is considered the desired "true state of...
What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Will they take over the world? Is the survival of the human species at risk? These may seem like questions for science fiction enthusiasts, but with the release of recent movies like "Her" with Joaquin Phoenix and...
You are driving down the street and suddenly someone walks out in front of you. You slam on the breaks in a split-second. A few seconds later, you probably wonder what part of you knew how to react so fast. Was it a miracle, divine...
Daniel Goleman, PhD, is a psychologist and former science journalist at the New York Times and best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and most recently, Ecological Intelligence. Goleman supports the concept that conventional intelligence measured by one's IQ isn't necessarily a measure of how...
Though teeth have been grown in mice before, scientists revealed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences success at growing a 'fully functional' tooth from stem cells in mice. The article states: "Here, we report a successful fully functioning tooth replacement in an adult mouse...
Generosity and trustworthiness may go hand in hand. Researchers at Oxford University set out to discover the signals we rely on to decide who we can trust. What they found was that we distrust people who are stingy with their money and it turns out...
On February 1st 1996, at Mpath's Internet Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California a video game developer named Brain Moriarty gave an amazing lecture "to a crowd that seemingly grew smaller and smaller as he talked on." "The Point Is," (1996) is a virtual...
A study, "Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends," published in Scientific Reports by a team of UK and US researchers, found Google Trends keywords can predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Using historic data from January 2004...
In the 1950's Dr. Royal Rife, an American inventor designed a very powerful microscope that could detect living microbes by the color of their vibratory rates. Financed by millionaires like Henry Timken, Rife invented the Universal Microscope with 5,682 parts. It was a miraculous machine that...
In a paper, "On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity," published in the journal "Science" by Northwestern University researchers, examined the letter correspondence of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway, and found that the 16...
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience by authors Peggy Mason, PhD, professor of neurobiology, and Hayley Foo, PhD, research associate professor of neurobiology at the University of Chicago, is the first to show that while ingesting food or drink, a powerful painkilling...
IMDb Hip width may play a role in a woman's decision to have sex. On...
"In the 1918 flu pandemic homeopaths reported around 1% mortality in their cases, while conventional doctors were losing 30% of their patients....
The University of Southampton recently demonstrated that communication from person to person through the power of thought alone is absolutely possible. A Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) was used to capture brain signals that translated into commands which the humans could control just by thinking. Dr Christopher James from...
TorahWikimedia Commons A new software program developed by Bar-Ilan University computer scientist Moshe Koppel,...
CBS’ 60 minutes reported that scientists are coming close to “reading minds” with fMRI scans. It’s only a matter of time when science will catch up and realize the ability to “read minds” is an innate human skill that ancient metaphysicians have documented for thousands of...
Scientists Discover In New Sex-reversed Species The Females Have The Penis...
Silver bullets aren't only the Lone Ranger's calling card, "a symbol of justice, law and order," and an effective way to kill a vampire, but according to a recent press release by the University of New Hampshire: a powerful antimicrobial. A November 9th 2009, press release,...