Mysteries

The Amazing Way Plants Communicate With One Another

Although people generally carry the assumption that plants do not communicate, plants communicate with each other in amazing ways. Many studies in the past suggested that this is not true, but in a new study published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers reaffirms what scientists have always suspected — that plants communicate with each ...

Jack Roberts

Mother-Child Communication in Plants

An international team led by the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has shown that there is communication in plants, that mother plants guide the development of their embryos using the hormone auxin. In the future, this result might help breeders grow plants that are more resilient in the face of environmental challenges. The ...

Troy Oakes

How Fast Is Our Universe Expanding? Gravitational Waves May Hold the Answer

Gravitational waves may hold the key to the universe’s expansion. Since it first exploded into existence 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding, dragging along with it hundreds of billions of galaxies and stars, much like raisins in a rapidly rising dough. Astronomers have pointed telescopes to certain stars and other cosmic sources ...

Troy Oakes

A neutron star merging with a black hole.

Does Reincarnation Exist?

The concept of reincarnation is an open-ended topic. While many in the East believe in reincarnation, it is not a widely accepted phenomenon in the West. Reincarnation challenges one’s knowledge based on science. If you limit knowledge to what “science” allows you to see, then you are restricting yourself to a single dimension of reality. ...

Armin Auctor

Statue of a Lord Shiva.

Reincarnation: The Case of Luke Ruehlman

How are we to view reincarnation? Children have a wild imagination and can be very creative when telling stories to describe their perception of things or events in their worlds. But what if the stories they sometimes tell weren’t made up? What if some children could somehow access their soul’s memory and remember scenes from ...

Hermann Rohr

Three heavenly figures.

What Particles Get Their Mass From the Higgs Field?

The Higgs field is like an endless ocean through which all matter swims. Some particles are like sponges and sop up mass as they lumber along, while others are as sprightly as tiny minnows and dart right through. The Higgs theory is a beautifully simple explanation as to why some particles are massive while others ...

Troy Oakes

The Large Hadron Collider.

An 800-Year-Old Made in China Label Reveals Shipwreck History

Centuries ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. The wooden hull of the shipwreck disintegrated over time, leaving only a treasure trove of cargo. The ship had been carrying thousands of ceramics and luxury goods for trade, and they remained on the ocean floor until the 1980s when the ...

Troy Oakes

A ceramic base with 'Made in China'

The Mystery of China’s Floating City

China has had many stories of “floating” cities witnessed by thousands of citizens in the respective areas in the past few years. These floating cities have also stirred a hot debate on the possibility of a parallel universe or government-produced holograms. Apart from imaginative speculations, some people are also suggesting that the images could be ...

Nspirement Staff

Glassy Beads Hint of a Mysterious Missing Crater

Imperial experts have found a “breadcrumb trail” of glassy beads debris from an 800,000-year-old meteor impact. Around 800,000 years ago, a 20 kilometer meteor collided with the Earth, producing a zone of glassy beads debris in Australasia that covers a tenth of the Earth’s surface. However, despite the impact’s relatively young age in geological terms, ...

Troy Oakes

Dark Matter Is a No Show in a Ghostly Galaxy Far, Far Away

Astronomers, using data from the Gemini and W. M. Keck Observatories in Hawai’i, have encountered a galaxy that appears to have almost no dark matter. Since the Universe is dominated by dark matter and it is the foundation upon which galaxies are built, “…this is a game changer,” according to Principal Investigator Pieter van Dokkum ...

Troy Oakes