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'Super Sand' for Better Purification of Drinking Water

'Super Sand' for Better Purification of Drinking Water

Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand -- a mainstay filter material....

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Evolution to the Rescue

Evolution is usually thought to be a very slow process, something that happens over many generations, thanks to adaptive mutations. But environmental change due to....

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City Life Could Change Your Brain for the Worse

A study of German college students suggests that urbanite brains are more susceptible to stress, particularly social stress, than those of....

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Brain Scans Predict Music Sales

In 2007, Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University in Atlanta, studied the neural mechanisms of peer pressure by looking at how teenager’s perceptions....

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The Triumph of New-Age Medicine

The Triumph of New-Age Medicine

Medicine has long decried acupuncture, homeopathy, and the like as dangerous nonsense that preys on the gullible. Again and again, carefully controlled studies

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Honeybees Might Have Emotions

Honeybees Might Have Emotions

Honeybees have become the first invertebrates to exhibit pessimism, a benchmark cognitive trait supposedly limited to “higher” animals.

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SC Announcement

New SuperConsciousness Announcement

Four years ago I began the editorial project called SuperConsciousness. The desire to be part of a change in consciousness in our times, heralded by many throughout the centuries, was the inspiration that gave life to SuperConsciousness Magazine.

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Stress shortens Children’s Telomeres

Stress Shortens Children’s Telomeres

Molecular Psychiatry recently published a long-term study that found Romanian children growing up in orphanages had shorter telomeres than those that were placed in foster care. Telomeres are regions of....

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Ecosystems Behave like Human Bodies

Ecosystems Behave Like Human Bodies

Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) have developed a mathematical model that recreates the behavior of an ecosystem. The model allows....

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Climate Change Now - Current effects of global warming

Climate Change Now

As temperatures get hotter, predictions about flooding, droughts, ruined farmland, and global food shortages get worse. While there is plenty of data about future outcomes, there are very few studies that examine how global warming is currently affecting the...

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