The world's scientific community united yesterday to launch one of the strongest attacks yet on creationism, warning that the origins of life were being "concealed, denied or confused". At least our lives don't depend on creationists understanding … [Read more...]
Savant For An Hour
Participants in the study were presented with 50 to 150 random elements on a monitor. Ten of the 12 participants improved their ability accurately to guess the number of elements immediately following TMS treatment to the left anterior temporal lobe, … [Read more...]
Finally! Chicken And Egg Problem Solved
From Chicken and Egg Problem Solved: Java Pimp writes "It seems scientists and philosophers now agree which came first. The Egg. From the CNN article: 'Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an … [Read more...]
Mapping ‘Self’ And ‘Other’ In The Brain
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have mapped not only where trust forms in the brain but have also uncovered clues as to how humans represent themselves and others as physical responses in their brains. Results are reported in this … [Read more...]
Meditation Increases Brain Size
People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don't. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they … [Read more...]
Science As Practice
From The Future Of Science: Kevin Kelly has some fascinating ideas about where science as a practice is going in the next 50 years. Just the topic headings make for crunchy, futurismic reading: compiled negative results, triple blind experiments, … [Read more...]
LiveScience.com: The Most Popular Myths in Science
LiveScience.com: The Most Popular Myths in Science: Humans use only 10 percent of their brains This media darling has been around for at least a century. Fortunately, it's just not true. MRI imaging clearly demonstrates--with fancy colors no … [Read more...]