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The Mandela Effect – Myth of a Parallel Universe

‘Mandela Effect’, which may actually be caused by small glimpses of an alternative universe. Are we living in alternate realities? Or has our reality, our timeline been changed? At one point or another split in two or are we…

Witnessing the totality of solar eclipse in USA

It was a total solar eclipse in the United States of America on Monday August 21 st , 2017, this century’s first in the country. It started in oregano at 1:15 p.m. eastern time, with the skies getting dark just as the moon …

Scientists discover On/Off switch in human brain

Scientists claim to have found an ‘on-off’ switch in our brain that can bring people in and out of consciousness. Dr Mohamad Koubeissi and his team from George Washington University studied an epileptic patient and found that …

Study smarter to learn better: 8 tips from memory researchers

The way most students study makes no sense. That’s the conclusion of Washington University in St. Louis psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel — who’ve spent a combined 80 years studying learning and memory, and re…

Stop Repeating: There are Better Ways to Memorize

A new study published in Learning and Memory found that simple repetition interferes with the ability to learn new information, especially when it is similar to a set of familiar facts. This may mean that memorizing facts abo…

New research gives hope to HIV cure using ‘molecular scissors’

Good news for everyone. Researchers at Temple University announced this week that they completely eliminated a dormant strain of HIV embedded in human cells with a kind of “molecular scissors,” raising hopes that science is a…

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(Satire) The field of psychology was brought to an immediate halt this week as disillusioned and weary practitioners of the discipline reportedly concluded that the mind could never possibly hope to study itself. Abandonin…

You can now diagnose Malaria ‘In A Few Minutes’

Researchers have invented an inexpensive device that can accurately diagnose malaria within minutes by using only a droplet of blood, according to a paper published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine. The new technique c…

Scientific Reason You Are – Or Are Not – Attracted to Someone

If a naked female stands in front of a man, where do his eyes gaze first and why? What judgment can you make about a man based on his hands? Why can a seemingly beautiful person be such a physical turn off? Why do women flip …

Flying car by Slovakian AeroMobile is a reality now

Finally! The flying car that really could be coming to a road (and sky) near you It has been a sci-fi dream for decades – a car that can simply take to the air to avoid traffic. However, a Slovakian firm has said it has final…

Psychology’s most influential but unethical studies

Some of the most important studies in the history of psychology couldn’t be done today — because they were incredibly unethical. That includes the “Little Albert” study from 1920, in which researchers purposefully terrifie…

The Psychology of Selfie

It is clearly not only egocentric and emotionally unregulated adolescents who obsess over photographs of themselves. Politicians and business tycoons seem just as concerned about their photographic images, driven by a heady m…

Lowering Your Stress Level by 21%

If your New Year’s resolution was to cut back on screen time, you might want to rethink it. Contrary to what we’ve been hearing for years, scrolling through your Twitter feed, sending personal emails, and texting photos back…

Bedtime Procrastinator: the reason you can’t sleep

For a long time, we’ve known about the insomniacs: The people who go bed and then toss and turn all night, unable to fall asleep. But there’s another group of sleepless sufferers: Those who can’t bring themselves to go to bed…

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