University Of Florida Researcher Explores Spirituality's Role In Health (March 25, 1997) -- Can spirituality improve health? A University of Florida researcher is trying to find out, using a new scientific survey to put religion under the ... > full story

Spiritual Beliefs, Practices May Help Smokers Quit (May 8, 2007) -- Unlike many traditional alcohol and drug dependence treatment programs, mainstream smoking cessation programs generally exclude spiritual practice and beliefs from the treatment process. But a recent ... > full story

Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Tracks Energy Flow Through Molecules (June 21, 2002) -- Using an ultrafast laser spectroscopy technique, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have tracked and timed the flow of vibrational energy through certain molecules in ... > full story

Religion-Health Connection Claims Questioned (February 23, 1999) -- A team of Columbia University scientists is warning against incorporating spiritual and religious interventions into medical ... > full story

Everyday Beliefs About Food Refuse To Give Way To Scientific Evidence (August 22, 2006) -- Marieke Saher's recent doctoral dissertation for the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki analyses everyday beliefs about food and health. By these beliefs she refers to people's ... > full story

Evidence Behind Claim Of Religion-Health Link Is Shaky, Researchers Say (March 14, 2002) -- Popular claims that religious activity provides health benefits have virtually no grounding in the medical literature, according to an article in the March issue of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. ... > full story

Seniors Use Prayer To Cope With Stress; Prayer No. 1 Alternative Remedy (January 5, 2001) -- If you're an older American and suffered from holiday stress this season, odds are good you used prayer to ward it off, new research ... > full story

Penn Astrophysicist Outlines A Multi-Pronged Approach In The Hunt For Dark Energy (March 11, 2005) -- For the last few years evidence that we are living on a very "weird" universe has been growing: the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and one theory proposed to account for this acceleration ... > full story

"Dark Energy" Dominates The Universe (January 2, 2003) -- A Dartmouth researcher is building a case for a "dark energy"-dominated universe. Dark energy, the mysterious energy with unusual anti-gravitational properties, has been the subject of great debate ... > full story

Dark Energy May Be Vacuum (January 16, 2007) -- Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. The new data shows that ... > full story

Dark Matter And Dark Energy May Be Different Aspects Of A Single Unknown Force (July 2, 2004) -- In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that there is a lot more to the universe than meets the eye: the cosmos appears to be filled with not just one, but two invisible constituents dark ... > full story

Energy (healing or psychic or spiritual) -- Energy in spirituality, refers to a widespread belief in an interpersonal, non-physical force or essence. Believers consider spiritual energy to be of a different type than those known to science, ... > full article

Self-realization -- In yoga, self-realization is knowledge of one's true self. This true self is also referred to as the atman to avoid ambiguity. The term "self-realization" is a translation of the Sanskrit expression ... > full article

Belief -- Belief is usually defined as a conviction of the truth of a proposition without its verification; therefore a belief is a subjective mental interpretation derived from perceptions, ... > full article

Kinetic energy -- Kinetic energy is energy that a body possess as a result of its motion. Kinetic energy as it is mathematically written is the "classic statement" of: Kinetic energy is equal to half the mass of an ... > full article

Ultimate fate of the universe -- The ultimate fate of the universe is a subject of study in the field of cosmology. Vying scientific theories predict whether the life of the universe is finite or infinite. Current understanding of ... > full article

Palliative care -- Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. It aims at ... > full article

Friction -- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency of such motion of two surfaces in contact. It is also the contact of two objects creating static electricity. It is not, however, a ... > full article

Surface tension -- Surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes the layer to behave as an elastic sheet. It is the effect that allows insects (such as the water strider) to walk on ... > full article

Food chain -- Food chains and food webs and/or food networks describe the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words, they show the transfer of material and energy from one species ... > full article

Moment magnitude scale -- The moment magnitude scale was introduced in 1979 by Tom Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori as a successor to the Richter scale and is used by seismologists to compare the energy released by ... > full article