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Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?
How is your existence these days?” I tap on my laptop. The entity that says it is my father, dead these 12 years, quickly responds. “It’s … different. Being dead is a strange experience. I’m
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Learning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study Finds
Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, suggests that people who are
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Are You Dreaming of a ‘Mall World’? You’re Not Alone
… Dylan Selterman, a scientist who works as an associate teaching professor at the Johns Hopkins University department of psychological and brain sciences, and studies dreams, said there was no scientific research that backed any
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RFK, Jr., Says Tylenol Use for Circumcision Causes Autism. Here’s Why That Claim Is Flawed
Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link between autism and circumcision. “There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised
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The Rare Disease That Stops People From Feeling Fear
Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane and feeling nothing. No rush of adrenaline, or quickening heartbeat. … “In that situation, SM and other individuals with amygdala damage will go nose-to-nose with relatively unfamiliar experimenters, which
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Exposure to Bright Light Can Help Fend Off Winter Blues. The Time to Start Is Now
Our bodies can be quite sensitive to changes in daylight because we rely on it to regulate our circadian rhythms and our sleep-wake patterns. And because our internal body clocks don’t keep a perfect 24-hour cycle, the master clock
