Riddles of man 2024, November

Somnology - quite a young science, and many of its aspects still baffle scientists - ranging from amazing disorders like sexomnia to the question of why we even need dreaming sleep

Medicine is constantly evolving. New vaccines and therapies have reached incredible levels, and millions of people around the world are successfully cured of those diseases that a century ago were considered God's curse. However, even today, doctors are faced with real medical mysteries

In the American city of Ashland, Ogaya State, Ron Whitehall attacked his wife in a dream. It seemed to the man that he was protecting himself from the snake, but in reality he was strangling his wife. The result of the behavior was sleep disorder

Feeling physical pain is essential for survival, but there are people on the planet who do not feel pain. Scientists are trying to understand why this is happening.Congenital insensitivity to pain is a rare condition, but it occurs across the planet

Neurologist Dmitry Shubin separates the wheat from the chaff, and the myths from the truth.- Salik.bizMyth 1. "Feeling like the brain hurts"It is not true. The brain itself, that same gray matter with convolutions, which is usually meant by it, does not have nerve endings

Brain scientists believe that the future of the world is in their hands, because one day they will be able to quickly and accurately “turn on” or “turn off” the centers responsible for pleasure and pain.By stimulating the brain, it will be possible to give people what they want or, conversely, not to give. Thus, y

Pain is subjective. Everyone has a pain threshold beyond which it is no longer possible to endure pain. Understanding your pain threshold level means you feel good about your body. What is pain threshold?

It is the practice of out-of-body travel that makes it possible to move from blind faith to the knowledge that with the death of the physical body, a person's consciousness does not die. Indeed, during out-of-body exits, we leave the physical shell and do not die at the same time

Englishwoman Olivia Farnsworth looks like an ordinary child. If you do not know about its peculiarity, which confused scientists and doctors. It all started when a girl had an accident

In 2013, the results of a study were published, the authors of which tried to apply the method of searching for a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligent source (the SETI project) not to the vast expanses of the Universe … but to the genetic code of terrestrial organisms

The development of an organism is controlled not only by genes, but also by the system of signals that cells send to each other. Even in the absence of genetic mutations, cellular catastrophes can occur, leading to cancer. "Tape

Many of our readers, who are familiar with Chinese metaphysics to one extent or another, are well aware that Eastern medicine does not consider the human body as a kind of “thing in itself”, which the “academicians” of the Western school see in it.- Sa

Yes, this is possible. In principle, the iris is a device similar to the diaphragm in a camera.It narrows and dilates the pupil by regulating the amount of light reaching the retina. In bright light, the pupil becomes narrower, in weak light - wider

Acute, dull, sudden, chronic, aching, throbbing, blinding … This is - far from a complete list of epithets that we, without hesitation, use when talking about the sensation that we all experienced and continue to experience: about pain

It is well known that the color of our eyes is not inferior to the pattern on fingerprints in its uniqueness. So, on the planet it is impossible to find two people with an absolutely identical pattern of the iris of the eye. Despite this fact, some people's eye color can change over time, completely changing the person's appearance

It's hard to believe, but ten thousand years ago, all people on earth had the same color eyes - brown. Later, the gene responsible for eye color began to mutate. This led to a decrease in the production of melanin in the iris

Scientists, in particular Danish geneticists, argue that all blue-eyed earthlings have one common ancestor, since such a color of the iris - a consequence of a mutation that originally occurred with the only person on Earth

Heavenly, azure, cornflower blue, turquoise, blue … eyes. For millennia, the blue color of the eyes was sung and deified, considered the standard of beauty and a symbol of holiness

Scientists at the University of Toronto (Canada) have conducted a study of gene mutations and argue that the long-standing negative view of mutations is fundamentally wrong

Yogis and Buddhists have long claimed that meditation and ancient breathing practices such as pranayama strengthen our ability to focus on tasks

Works on the connection between genes and aggression were included in the textbook for investigators who are taught to catch criminals.Siberian geneticists and neuroscientists have conducted studies that interest Americans. Our scientists have determined that the connection between genes and the fact that a person becomes a violent criminal is negligible

GENETICS (from the Greek genesis - origin), a science that studies the laws of heredity and variability of organisms.- Salik.bizSo here:1. Intelligence is not passed from father to son. That is, if you are a genius, then your son will not 100% inherit your genes

According to Finnish studies, differences in income are explained primarily by genesHereditary factors and circumstances determine most of what level of salary a person can achieve. A Finnish study shows that parenting plays a minor role. The results of the study described in the article are based on observations of almost all Finnish non-identical twins of the same sex and identical twins who were born between 1950 and 1957

Only to varying degrees … I thought that such trains had already disappeared, but no: a six-fingered brass palm on the door of the dining car! I drank coffee, watched us drive through the province of Savo, and smiled at the designer's genius

American geneticists, led by Bruce Lahn, Doctor of Biology, published a sensational work in which they argue that mutations occur in the human brain, which, possibly, will lead to the emergence of a new race

Researchers at the University of Mainz and the Institute for Molecular Biology (Germany) have found that a type of RNA called TERRA is capable of repairing telomeres. Thanks to this mechanism, premature cell aging is blocked

Everything you do changes your brain. Even reading this article. Right now, wherever you are, looking at these words is shaping and changing the connections between neurons inside your head

A child was born in China four years after his parents died in a car accident, local media reported. He was endured by a surrogate mother

Children begin to react to people's faces and pay more attention to them than to other environmental objects even before birth, inside the womb, British scientists say in an article published in the journal Current Biology

Until now, scientists and doctors have not fully studied the nature of human clairvoyance. But, in general, all people who have such a gift can be conditionally divided into 2 groups - people with an innate gift and those who have acquired similar skills

In the 70s of the 19th century, the English physicist William Barrett was the first to try to scientifically test the reality of telepathic communication. And his experiments (with mental suggestion of taste sensations) turned out to be extremely successful

Transfer of information from short-term storage to long-term storage occurs during a dialogue between different memory centers. We know that any new information enters first into short-term memory, and then into long-term memory

Science says we are programmed to deceive ourselves. Is there anything you can do about it? I'm looking at a photo of myself 20 years older than now

I will tell you two of my dreams that scared me to the core. What happened to me in a dream happens to very few people. But, I don’t remember exactly one or two people who, like I experienced such dreams, I met in my life. And we all think that it is terribly scary and unpleasant to experience this, and you understand this after you really wake up.A

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame at South Bend (USA) have found that the protein enzyme RIPK1, which is involved in cell necrosis, is able to block the growth of malignant tumors and the occurrence of metastases

When the aging of the soul and body begins Let's try to figure out when and why the aging of the soul and body of a person occurs. Is it all the same for everyone? Hardly

Poor air quality kills 48,000 people in France every year. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the public health service in France

Scientists at the University of York (UK) have discovered how the flow of sleep affects a person's ability to remember new information. Research results published in Current Biology

Meditation is better at relieving pain than medication, according to a study by scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Just a few minutes of meditation a day is enough to forget about pain

Doctors talked about cases of excessive LSD overdose and how this experience changed the human psyche.One teenager accidentally swallowed 10 times the usual dose of LSD in an attempt to "relax." A 26-year-old girl caught an overdose without knowing she was pregnant