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17.11.2009, 12:39 2 comments

Is meditation a wonder cure for heart disease?

Meditation can lower the risk of heart attack in subjects with existing disease, comparable to that of powerful new drugs. In a 5-year study, meditating cardiac patients were almost 50% less likely to be affected.

12.05.2010, 12:36 2 comments

Ball lighting may be induced hallucination

Numerous encounters of light balls during thunderstorms may actually be magnetic fields playing with human senses.

21.06.2010, 12:02 1 comment

Warning: blog depression alert!

Israeli inventors say they have developed a program that can screen depression sufferers by surfing blogs.

15.10.2009, 17:46 1 comment

Hannibal Lecter not cold-blooded, just inattentive, hints study

Psychopaths are believed to have pathological problems with emotions. Feeling no fear or compassion, they kill in cold blood, but a new study suggests their asocial behavior may be due to attention problems.

Iraq: US Marines take a break from searching house-to-house during day three on October 9, 2009. (AFP Photo / David Furst) 16.10.2009, 16:10 1 comment

Local deaths sway war opinions

Public disapproval of war is influenced more by local reports of local casualties, with modern news formats shortening the impact timeframe of casualty reports, according to a new study.

06.11.2009, 11:11

Newborns cry in native tongue

The melodies of the cries newborn babies produce differ depending on their native language, a new study says. Apparently humans start to practice language skills right in the first days of their lives.

image from http://mars500.imbp.ru 26.02.2010, 12:56

Mars flight simulation crew start training

Eleven volunteers from Russia, Europe and China have been selected to prepare for a simulation flight to Mars. Six of them will be chosen and isolated for 520 days to test how the human mind can cope with such stress.

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01.06.2010, 13:22

Armpit smell helps soul mates tell emotions

As a romantic relationship builds over years, people learn to detect hidden clues about their partner’s emotional state from how they smell, a new study says.

15.12.2009, 17:39

Ancestors’ carnivorous habits made us outlive apes

A genetic adaptation to increasing the consumption of raw meat by ancient humans may have given us protection from age diseases. Puzzlingly, a variant of the same gene can be rather more harmful than beneficial.

Edvard Munch, The Scream 26.01.2010, 11:40

Negative emotions cut across cultures

Sounds we use to express fear and sadness will be recognized as such by any culture, while giving a cheer or a sigh of relief requires some social training, a study suggests.

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Published: 09 November, 2009, 11:51


image by flickr user Shirin K. A. Winiger

It’s not yet clear whether pigs can be as vain as we humans can, but they certainly know how to use a mirror, a new study has revealed.

 
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