Listen to My Exclusive Interview with Dr. Michael Cotton on Higher Brain Living! Every year millions of people die from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Many fall into depression and suffer from a very high level of anxiety. We try ...
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Listen to My Exclusive Interview with Dr. Will Moreland on Genius Potential! Humans love to define things in number. For example, those who have a body mass index of around 30 and above are considered obese. People who are six ...
Read More »Jump Off with Jara Everett
Exclusive Interview with Jara Everett, Author of Jump Off! (Can’t See Flash Player, Click Here) The definition of a Jump Off according to the Urban Dictionary: a casual sexual partner or girlfriend a woman of dubious sexual practices anything new and/or ...
Read More »Yarsagumba: Aphrodisiac Fungus Faces Extinction in Nepal
Climate change and overharvesting have put a Himalayan fungus valued for its purported aphrodisiac qualities at risk of extinction. Known variously as yarsagumba, yarchagumba, yartsa gunba, yatsa gunbu and, more colloquially, “Himalayan Viagra,” the parasitic caterpillar fungus Cordyceps ( Ophiocordyceps sinensis ) grows on and kills Tibetan ghost moths during their larval phase underground
Read More »Apple Unveils Future Products, Including iOS 6 with Tighter Facebook Ties
Apple introduced a number of improvements to its mobile and desktop operating systems as well as its MacBook Pro and Air computers Monday at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. The conference is primarily aimed at programmers who will develop software and apps that run on Apple’s products but also provides a glimpse of what’s in store for some of its most popular electronics in the near future
Read More »Statins Are Linked With Fatigue
Image courtesy of iStockphoto/OtmarW Cholesterol-lowering statins have been credited with preventing countless heart attacks among at-risk adults.
Read More »Astronomers Seek Biggest Stars
How big can a star get?
Read More »Human Health Given Short Shrift in Climate Talks
Aside from its impact on sea levels, weather and the economy, researchers say climate change is also an urgent public health concern, a matter that has been largely left out of the global climate conversation until recently. [More]
Read More »NASA Scientists Fight Budget Cuts with "Bake Sale"
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Read More »Alternative Energy and the Future of Our Fuels
Novel fuels, "green" sources and new technologies will enable us to get around in more environmentally friendly ways [More]
Read More »Another Perspective on Massive Brain Simulations
Henry Markram has become famous as the creator of the world's most expensive brain simulation, but neuroscientists know him best for his pioneering experiments on synapses.
Read More »Black Holes are Everywhere
Holes are everywhere, if you look... This post is the second in a series that accompanies the upcoming publication of my book ‘Gravity’s Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos’ (Scientific American/FSG). [More]
Read More »Is Dark Matter a Glimpse of a Deeper Level of Reality?
Two years ago several of my Sci Am colleagues and I had an intense email exchange over a period of weeks, trying to figure out what to make of a new paper by string theorist Erik Verlinde . I don’t think I’ve ever been so flummoxed by physicists’ reactions to a paper. Mathematically it could hardly have been simpler the level of middle-school algebra for the most part.
Read More »Plastic Chips Mimic Function of Human Organs
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute are developing plastic chips that can perform the same basic functions as human organs.
Read More »U.S. Daily Oil Production At Highest Level Since 1998
United States oil production is on the rise. In the first quarter of 2012, average domestic crude oil production topped 6 million barrels per day (bbl/day). This is the first time that U.S.
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