Noetic Sciences

Hypnopaedia is the name given to sleep learning or sleep programming.  It means having something played to you while you sleep, and the subconscious absorbs some of what’s being spoken so that when you wake in the morning, you will have retained some of the information without consciously having to hear and memorise it. It’s [...]

There have been a few sci-fi films where humans, or robots/androids constructed to pass as humans, have detonated themselves to cause destruction or assassination: Scanners and Total Recall come to mind. And the great Sci-Fi writer Philip K Dick has his finger on the pulse in his short story Imposter, where during a war between [...]

This article has a brief look at the history of alchemy and then analayses whether, with all our modern chemistry and physics know-how, we can crack alchemy and turn base metals into gold (or any other metal we choose) in the near future. Mention alchemy and it conjures up images of long-bearded medieval types in [...]

Have you seen the video of the the Volkswagen hover car yet? It’s creating a lot of attention- so catch it below. It is a product of the “People’s Car Project” (PCP) in China, which called upon potential customers to contribute design ideas for Volkswagen’s model of the future. But let’s take a little jaunt [...]

Following research undertaken last year by  researchers, led by David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, the debate still permeates the air in scientific circles as to whether the dinosaurs were the cause, at least in part, of global warming aeons ago. The greenhouse gas methane, which along with carbon we [...]

This Sunday evening, 6 May,  if the clouds clear, we in the UK and most of Europe will be treated to a Supermoon in the sky. What is a Supermoon? It’s our familiar lunar satellite, the moon, but will be the largest full moon of the year. There are a number of full moons every [...]

We now have eco-friendly cars; hybrids, electrics and the like.  So why can’t we use these planet-friendly energies for other forms of transport- such as airliners?   I can put up with poor in-flight food, old films and expensive drinks, but it’s the extra taxes that keep being added on to the cost of tickets because [...]

The European Space Agency is filling the vaccuum left by NASAs scaling back of cosmic exploration with a planned launch of a satellite to Jupiter’s moons in 2020. It’s called Juice. Juice is a proposal to study Jupiter’s moons to see if life can be sustained there. It  envisages an instrument-packed, near five-tonne satellite at [...]

“Hydrogen Mini-Forests of the Future? Errr what’s that all about then?”  Read on and discover! Whatever you may think about the pursuit for greener energy and renewable power, there’s no denying that scientists, inventors and innovaters have been given renewed impetus by the challenges of reducing our carbon footprint. We’ve seen advances in solar power [...]

More than 1 million Americans have Heart Attacks each year.  In Britain it’s one of the major killers. But new research published this week gives hope to those who have suffered a heart attack, and are left with weakened hearts and a poor prognosis. A heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI), is permanent damage to [...]

So there you are on the platform waiting for your train. A few other people are playing games their mobile handsets, or speaking to someone on them. Your phone rings, you shrug off your black leather full-length Matrix-like coat to answer your phone… And with a flourish of your arm, and to the gasps of [...]

There’s much excitement and speculation following images recorded on 24 April from NASA’s Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).  A strange object flying close to the sun looks unnervingly like a huge, metallic ‘mothership’ familiar from Hollywood Sci-Fi blockbusters. The picture  has become an immediate cult hit on the internet, with both  excitable UFO watchers and cool-headed [...]

Do you remeber Knight Rider? It was a 1980s US TV series featuring “the Hoff” (David Hasselhoff) as Michael Knight, a high-tech crime fighter who was aided and abetted by an articicial intelligent car. The car spoke to him and could be commanded remotely to drive to him. It was pretty cheesy as a show, [...]

It’s still one of the glittering prizes available for scientists to grab; a foolproof way of predicting seismic activity. Researchers and scientists in Japan think they may be onto something. Catfish. The studies are rooted in a Japanese myth that the country rests on a giant sleeping catfish which twitches its tail from time to [...]