If you’ve been keeping up with online trends, then you’ve probably heard of ASMR; it’s an acronym for autonomous sensory meridian response, used to explain the experience of feeling tingly sensations in response to certain audio-visual stimuli, or “triggers.” These triggers include personal attention and close-up ear attention. In response to these triggers, tingles start […]
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Heartbreak often brings to mind cartoon hearts dramatically shattering into pieces Looney-Tunes-style, or eating a giant tub of ice cream and crying over romantic comedies. In reality, though, according to the American Heart Association (AHA), there is such a thing as a literal broken heart, which raises the question — is it actually possible to
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Alzheimer’s disease is a vicious illness most often characterized by drastic decline in cognitive function including memory loss and confusion — frequently causing severe emotional stress for the affected along with their family and friends. Fortunately, recent technology, called gamma band neural stimulation, has emerged, showing promise of having a significant impact on Alzheimer’s. Although
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For an animal missing both a heart and a brain, jellyfish are beautifully mystifying to watch as they glide through the water. As very simple creatures and extremely slow swimmers, jellyfish have been overlooked by many researchers when in fact the way in which they pulsate their bell to move is quite complex and efficient.
Monitoring the heart for long periods of time has become easier than ever because of the development of wristwatches, smartphones, and wearable devices in the age of today’s biosensing revolution. The most notable of these devices is perhaps the Apple Watch, which comes embedded with a built-in electrocardiogram (ECG) and heart rate monitor and now
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As humans, we tend to be both afraid of and fascinated by death. It is virtually the only thing that we are all certain to experience, yet no one can say for sure what happens to us when we die. However, some individuals who’ve had particularly close brushes with death claim to have had a
Dolphins are generally regarded as one of the most intelligent species of mammals, even demonstrating the ability to learn and follow verbal cues and gestures from human trainers while in captivity. In the wild, dolphins use sound signals to navigate, hunt, and communicate with other creatures, including individuals of their own species and of other
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Think back to the last time you gave a presentation; were you nervous? Did you lose your appetite for the day? When it was time to present, did your stomach somersault? When considering physical responses to stressful situations, there is a clear connection between behavior and the gut. In anxiety-stimulating situations, the body can respond
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“I came all the way across the sea to learn something I can’t learn in the States,” Victor Eng tells me. “This is the place to create new products. We’re creating the standard right now. No restaurant in the world is doing this.” Eng is studying the formulation of new flavors at Noma, in Copenhagen,
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