Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Joseph Murphy
It was not the splinter of wood from the sidewalk that healed him. It was his imagination aroused to an intense degree, plus the confident expectancy of a perfect healing. Imagination was joined to faith or subjective feeling, and the...
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- Written by: David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head.
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- Written by: Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology
Scientists have discovered for the first time a functional link between bacteria in the intestines and Parkinson’s disease.
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- Written by: Primrose Cooper
As light is necessary for the growth of plants and trees, animals, insects and bird life, so it is essential for us. We need sunlight to build strong bones and teeth. Without it children can develop rickets and dental decay. Without realizing it we can suffer from light starvation...
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- Written by: Barbara E. Savin
It’s time to clear the aura. Sweeping and clearing remove congested and diseased energy and cleanse, strengthen, and greatly facilitate the healing process. Many simple illnesses can be healed just by sweeping and clearing the aura.
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- Written by: Vanessa McMains, Johns Hopkins University
Just one dose of a hallucinogenic drug offers many cancer patients up to six months of relief from disease-related anxiety or depression.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue, University of Arizona
In a remote area of Tanzania, Hadza men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Meanwhile, Hadza women gather tubers, berries, and other fruits.
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- Written by: Taylor Graham, Johns Hopkins University
Safer styling practices and shampoo and conditioning choices can help remedy a type of hair loss and damage that often afflicts African Americans, researchers say.
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- Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University
A system of sensors added to defibrillator implants might make it possible to predict heart failure events—sometimes more than a month before they happen.
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich
Eating a very high-fat diet early in life may disrupt development of the prefrontal cortex in young brains, according to new research in mice.
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- Written by: Lawerence Synett, University of Pittsburgh
People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don’t, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Meg Blackburn Losey, Ph.D.
Healing has always been a great mystery, especially when a cure works for one person but perhaps not for another. Part of the success or failure of any healing modality is how the recipient perceives and accepts the healing. Let’s face it. Some of us...
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- Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University
Scientists have long puzzled over how breast cancer can suddenly reappear, often with a vengeance, months, or years after treatment is complete.
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- Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University
Concerns about weight gain may be driving contraception choices for women, a new study suggests. Women who are overweight or obese are less likely to use the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptive methods.
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- Written by: Karen Black, University of Rochester
Electronic cigarettes are as equally damaging to gums and teeth as conventional cigarettes.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Among the many human, environmental, and economic impacts of global climate change, heat stress itself is perhaps underestimated as a major challenge to health and sustainability.
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- Written by: University of Melbourne
Rice is the staple food of billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing carbohydrates for energy, it has little nutritional value.
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- Written by: Vanessa Wasta, Johns Hopkins University
An experimental drug appears to pack a one-two punch against some prostate cancers, significantly slowing the increase of cancer cells and making them more vulnerable to radiation.
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- Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University
Scientists looked at the brains of eight people older than 90 who had superior memories until their deaths. They were surprised to find widespread and dense Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles that...
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
Your birth year predicts—to a certain extent—how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Stanford University
Brain scans of children and teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show structural differences between the sexes in one part of the insula
