Nautis Project

There is an interesting article on Suppressed Science about the bizarre belief that science has just about gotten it all wrapped up. Many scientists believe that they are somehow on the verge of knowing everything. I know that sounds laughable but this is a real position taken by many within the scientific community. Here is [...]

From the New Scientist magazine, “It’s a speed record that is supposed to be impossible to break. Yet two physicists are now claiming they have propelled photons faster than the speed of light. This would be in direct violation of a key tenet of Einstein’s special theory of relativity that states that nothing, under any [...]

From the Washington Post: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to [...]

From Discover Magazine: “Of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex: There are as many neurons in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So it is no surprise that, “­despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we [...]

Have you ever wondered why there are 12 months in a year, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute? It’s one of those things we take for granted every day. This system has always seemed pretty arbitrary to me but you can find out the logic behind this by looking at [...]

From this month’s Psychology Today: The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals. Semen contains hormones [...]