Does the soul exist? Does the soul really weigh 21 grams? What happens when a person dies and their soul gets separated from the body? The first time this controversial issue was approached was in 1907, by an American doctor, Duncan McDougall from Haverhill, Massachusetts. He conducted the following “macabre” experiment: he measured…
Perhaps, the intelligent life is in its very young stage in the Universe scale. 200 billion galaxies show a potential to continue their existence for hundreds of billions of years or even more. Since the planets and the life are so new in our Universe, says Dimitar Sasselov from Harvard…
Is there a recipe for happiness? While it is different for everyone, science may give us a few ideas. Everyone knows that money cannot buy happiness, but often, we begin to think that we will be happier if we have more money. We seek to become rich (even when we…
Many marijuana smokers say that after smoking, they do not dream at all. However, if the same people give up smoking, then they note that they have vivid and intense dreams at night. We have the most vivid dreams during the REM sleep stage, so that raises the question of…
Have you ever wondered how the world will be in 100 years? No one can know it from now, but prominent scientists (physicists, biologists, and sociologists) who study the evolution of society, human life, and the world, in general, make such kinds of predictions based solely on scientific data. This…
