A big reason bad dreams offer insight into the architecture of dreams generally is that, as a host of studies have shown, most of our dreams are bad. Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of REM sleep, the results are the same: about three-quarters of the emotions described are negative. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them. This warping of time apparently does not result from the brain speeding up from adrenaline when in danger. Instead, this feeling seems to be an illusion, scientists now find. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

With some parts of Europe currently in the middle of a heat wave, it seems it's not only people who suffer from the soaring temperatures. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed." picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Hilarious modification of an old comic strip warning about too much WoW! The more I see stuff like this, the more tempted I am to check the game out (so I can mock it myself). picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

Back in the day when comics weren’t the big business they are today you only had a few underpaid and overworked people pushing out a large number of comic books every month. And those overworked employees and freelancers did an incredible job of laying the groundwork for the high quality of comic books we have today. But, because of deadlines (they actually met) and not enough eyes to look a... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 7 hours ago

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

The sub-prime mortgage crisis threatens to kill the dream of home ownership for millions of Americans. Here is one of their stories. [satire] picked by leopoldogolba 12 months ago

Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency — slow and choppy reading — may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers. Their study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers’ brains that makes it difficult to integrate the information needed for... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Well, try Dream Boost. A dream enhancer that promotes healthy dreaming and dream recall. Dreams experienced from a dream enhancer may become more colorful, vivid, and may even produce lucid dreams. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

This is a trippy perceptual phenomenon which will mess with your head a little bit. Sine wave speech is artificially degraded speech that sounds like just beeps and whistles until you have been primed to hear it as speech. Try it, you will be amazed! picked by mahler87 10 months ago

An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Comeeko.com lets you upload photos and add comic-strip-style captions and borders. The results can look quite funky. picked by TheStep 2 years ago

Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A plethora of latest results from the Hinode solar observatory contains a wealth of new discoveries. This includes the discovery of a source of the slow solar wind and the observation of a superhot micro flare. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

The story in pictures tell about our dreams, who we want to be, what we think and dream of. One word - wonderful! picked by maxriter 1 year ago

The LHC is getting all the coverage, but another major physics experiment the Virgo gravity-wave interferometer, an €80 million (US$114 million) has been incapacitated by a vacuum failure for most of the summer, and is expected to stay out of commission for a month or two to come. It is searching for that elusive Gravity Wave picked by bernardblack 3 months ago

An Arizona man is celebrating a special day to promote comic books as engaging educational tools. Free Comic Book Day is set to take place the first Saturday in May. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Lots of different slow motions clips of bullets firing and hitting their targets. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

Great slow motion footage of a tank firing a round and following it along it's path. Interesting to see how much of its is actually spinning while it's in flight. picked by shredtone 2 years ago