Popular Science News | Lucid Dreaming Craze

Popular Science News – if you haven’t had one then what follows may sound like gibberish to you. A new craze, apparently, is to attend courses teaching how to have lucid dreams. These are dreams in which you know you are dreaming and have varying degrees of control of what happens. In my own […]

Popular Science News | Walk in the Cold and Get Thin

Popular Science News – scientist are telling us that walking in the cold after a meal burns more calories than walking in the warm. The reason behind this is that brown fat is activated by the cold. This fat responds to cold and warms us up, burning off calories in the process. So scientists […]

Popular Science News | Placebos – the kiss it better effect

Popular Science News – placebos are used in pharmaceutical research projects and contain nothing of medical use, at least that is what has been thought up until now. We all know of mothers kissing a child’s scratch better and the child walking away content but now it seems there is more to it that […]