More than 300 million people worldwide are at risk of developing diabetes and the disease's economic impact in some hard-hit countries could be higher than that of the AIDS pandemic, diabetes experts warn.... posted on Aug 27 2003, 827 reads

It's common. Right as you pick up the phone, you tell the other person: "I was just thinking of you!" Are those just coincidences? Rupert Sheldrake and Pamela Smart decided to do some experiments on it and found that it's not quite so random. In fact, their study showed an above-chance success rate, implying that the callers could intuitively communicate with the callees!... posted on Aug 15 2003, 1,211 reads

Scientists have created a neuro-feedback system that dramatically improves the performance of musicians. Neurofeedback monitors brain activity through sensors attached to the scalp which filter out the brainwaves, which are then 'fed back' to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on a screen. The participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of their brain ... posted on Aug 09 2003, 2,518 reads

Happy people are three times less likely to get a cold, according to researchers who squirted cold virus up the noses of volunteers. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, also found that the positive thinkers who do develop symptoms complain about them less.... posted on Aug 06 2003, 1,078 reads

Cover of Time magazine this week reads -- "The Science of Meditation." It continues with the following blurb: "Scientists study it. Doctors recommend it. Millions of Americans -— many of whom don't even own crystals —- practice it every day. Why? Because meditation works." ... posted on Aug 01 2003, 2,299 reads

Wheelchairs may soon move at the speed of thought! Severely disabled people who cannot operate a motorised wheelchair may one day get their independence, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts.... posted on Jul 29 2003, 1,064 reads

Allan Snyder seems to be able to turn on a person's inner "Rain Man", and then turn it off again, with the flick of a switch. All it takes is a strange set of electrodes; and a radical new theory of autism, genius and the human brain. He asked a NY Times columnist to draw a picture of a cat four times, each time with different doses of these magnetic impulses. The results were stunning. Check t... posted on Jun 28 2003, 2,891 reads

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Research by Paul Ekman, at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, suggests that meditation and mindfulness can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.... posted on May 30 2003, 1,150 reads

Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering at Princeton, Professor Jahn, after 12 years of experiments involving more than 100 subjects in thousands of trials, has uncovered astonishing evidence that electronic devices can be controlled by thought. The human subjects proved capable of altering the output of the devices so much that the chances of getting such a bias by fluke alone is calculated to... posted on May 21 2003, 1,050 reads