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Gazzaley proposed they use EEG—electroencephalography—to measure brain waves, specifically one called frontal mi ...

The Atchleys, for their part, would also soon run an experiment to see if group problem-solving improved a ...

The research has profound implications for schools, hospitals, prisons and public housing. Imagine bigger wind ...

PART TWO NEARBY NATURE: THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES ...

3 The Smell of Survival I can’t begin to count how many times I was on some kind of a trip with ...

Park Hyun-Soo didn’t look like a man on chemotherapy. Forty-one and with a full head of black hair ...

like the easy pale food. I felt the need to walk briskly, but that wasn’t about to happen. First ...

hinoki forest. Yes, please! I creaked up from the table and wobbled into the physiology room. Like all the p ...

following a wide dirt road through the woods and then branching off into a narrow, well-maintained foot ...

more like unto the tree, more bristling and turpentiney. . . .” Clearly, cypress trees and the love ...

Like many of the phytoncides, it is a turpene, a family of aromatic hydrocarbons and a major compone ...

the oil gave off a nice, pitchy, sharp scent. We put the cap back on and read my blood pressure again. I ...

Maybe it was the translation, but things seemed to be bleeding out of the realm of quantifiable science and ...

hours per year on average, the highest figure in the OECD. More than 70 percent report their jobs make ...

“which is why this idea seems incongruous with what Seoul looks like today—jam-packed skyscrapers with ...

where it needs to go and making micro adjustments to the nervous system. “You must control your food and ...

office of Dr. Shin, who is the minister of the Korean Forest Agency. Shin greeted me with a handshake and ...

make floral collages. Earlier in the week at a forest named Saneum, I’d come upon a forest-healing prog ...

resort investments will generate profits, where shops will sell phytoceuticals (hinoki bath oil, anyone? ...

food and water in scarce environments. Astonishingly, the human nose can detect 1 trillion odors, including ...