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You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

How do we respond when atheists point to Christian beliefs that they say are scientifically contradicted and cannot be real ...

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I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The WSWS recently spoke to master musician Charles McPherson about the relationship between music, art and society.

Recent studies by Donna Thomas have shown how children commonly have extra-sensory experiences that go beyond our typical notions of self, time, and space.

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