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In the second half of 1960, American television stations had a series of programs featuring a young Israeli Uri Geller, who literally mesmerized the audience, demonstrating his paranormal ability to move metal objects using thoughts. Perhaps these old shows later inspired the Wachowski brothers to create the famous scene in…
European and U.S. astronomers discovered traces of water on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the biggest and most spherical asteroid in our solar system. The water was detected in the form of water vapor columns ejected into space possibly from volcanic geysers. It is the first unambiguous detection of water on…
Any arguments on the subject of intelligent alien civilizations have always triggered a lot of assumptive statements. Whether they exist. Whether they are advanced. Whether they are intelligent. Whether they have reached the stage of civilization and technological progress. Whether they have been developing in the same way as we…
How severe can the consequences of sleep disorders be for physical and mental health? Oddly enough, neither the reasons nor the evolutionary origins of sleep are known to science. From the standpoint of nature, sleep is hardly something worthwhile. When a person or animal is sleeping, their mind is ‘turned…
How can we explain when a solution to a problem that puzzles us seems to have come came out of nowhere? Maybe knowing a few different types of intuition could help. Intuition is often referred to as "readily available knowledge", which has the property to "suddenly" appear in our heads.…
Is animal consciousness real? The problem of consciousness still remains confusing and is divided not so much among academic schools, but according to their philosophical approaches. What is it all about when we talk about consciousness? Is it a necessary part of complex cognitive processes of understanding the world? Are…
It is known that most adults do not have any memories of the early years of their life. A new psychological study tries to answer the question: at what age and why early childhood memories begin to fade and then disappear. Scientists have found that childhood amnesia – this is…
Superpowers such as levitation are one of the favorite themes in comics and sci-fi movies about superheroes. Guess what? Levitation just became a bit more real. An exciting demonstration of 3D acoustic levitation by Japanese scientists resembles science fiction! For the first time, researchers of the University of Tokyo and…
