How mindfulness can regulate feelings of togetherness, improve community spirit and generate higher levels of altruism within a population.

A team at CalTech has developed a flexible rubber layer embedded with sensors and biofuel cells powered by human sweat. It can deliver...

How the secretions from healthy gut bacteria influences our sleep & stress resilience & the foods to promote their growth.

How our bodies fight infection and ways of boosting its effectiveness.

Scientific proof of dormant connections in regions responsible for empathy in teenage brains and why we need to be more patient with them.

Six factors affecting our responses to stress and what you can do to improve your resilience.

What value would you place on your genetic identity in the light of government plans to create a mandatory national database of our DNA?

How is it that we can cope with such intolerable discomfort by will power alone?

Meditation can help to reshape and repair connections that are not serving your best interests.

There are many types of meditation experiences out there, from the popular mindfulness exercises to the more spiritual transcendental...

The location of Christmas Cheer inside our brains.

They call it the breath of life. I prefer to think of it as a clock. Your body is a fully integrated system.

I’m told that practicing meditative techniques is the equivalent of a physical workout for the brain.

At last, hypnosis is shedding its bad reputation, and entering mainstream medicine as a viable alternative to sedation, regulating...

Two reviewers of my near-future science fiction thriller series recently criticised the plot claiming that the premise behind the story...

Okay, I admit it, I’m a recent convert to ‘grounding’ technology, not because my dear old hippy dad convinced me, but because it...

I wasted an entire working day, watching YouTube videos and reading articles in preparation for writing another post on consciousness....

Why is it acceptable to believe in quantum mechanics, or Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', and yet it is considered folly to...

Stephen King’s latest release, The Institute, has opened with lauded praise and a nod to his former work, The Shining, Firestarter, and...

Evidence from recent medical research studies suggests an answer of yes, quite possibly. It therefore begs the question; can we maintain...