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Meditation increases brain gray matter

Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers -- people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do to build a bigger brain? Meditate.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 13




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Forest recovering from Mt. St. Helens explosion: research (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Mt. St. Helens exploded 32 years ago on May 18. It began with a small series of earthquakes and culminated with the volcano erupting, a cataclysmic collapse of the flank of the mountain and the largest landslide ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Geothermal heating system draws on limitless fuel: sewage

Among the many renewable energy sources - wind, solar, hydroelectric, biofuels - there is one to which we all contribute that has not yet managed to attract the romantic advocates who have embraced other forms of green energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Bridges get a quick check-up with new imaging technique

Swiss engineers have developed a new imaging technique that lets them see the insides of massive concrete bridges. Much like a sonogram, this technique provides quick, easy-to-interpret images, so that the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Atmospheric origin of Martian interior layered deposits: Links to climate change and the global sulfur cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mobile apps raise new privacy concerns

Smartphone in hand, you tap into your local application store. You click on a nifty tool that promises to massage your belly and pat your head at the same time. But just as you're about to download it, you decide to click ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists see big 'scientific event' as Pacific whales turn up far from home

When scientists fired a cigar-sized satellite tag into the blubber of a western gray whale off Russia's Sakhalin Island in September, they expected to track her along Asia's Pacific shoreline down to the South China Sea.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Unexplained dolphin strandings continue in Mass.

(AP) -- There's no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter's massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher

(AP) -- Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is. But one ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

By the light of January's Wolf Moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cold-eyed moon rises above Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park. It is January. For Native Americans, it is the time of the Wolf Moon.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

LRO observes final lunar eclipse of the year

(PhysOrg.com) -- Orbiting 31 miles above the lunar surface, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will get a "front-row seat" to the total lunar eclipse on Dec. 10, 2011.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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