Browsing Tag: Science

If Guru Nanak’s verses are compared with the work of modern scientists, we find that they agree on the same conclusions.

Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her - that meditating can literally change your brain.

Grade 6 science teacher Sunita Jasrotia recently applied to have her students participate in "Tomatosphere," a program designed to help students investigate the effects of space on the growth of food that will inevitably support long-term space travel.

You may have just celebrated your 30th, 50th, or 75th birthday, but the cells that make up your body are actually much younger than that. If you go by the numbers, your cells are, on average, around 10 years old, or less.

Roughly 20 years ago, Steve Porges of the University of Chicago pioneered PolyVagal theory, which suggested that the Vagus nerve fundamentally drives human social affiliation—the motivations and behaviors involved in approaching others in trusting, affectionate, and cooperative ways.

[VIDEO] It provides an unrivaled glimpse into a subset of humanity who are now well into their 90s, for 75 years, collecting data on various aspects of their lives...

FiBL team member Dr. Gurbir S. Bhullar has received the 2014 research award from the Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR). The former ETH Zurich researcher has explored an interesting possibility for farmers to cultivate climate-neutral rice while also creating added value.

It turns out meditating is good for more than just quiet time: It can actually help us fight the cripplingly high stress levels we experience during our busy lives, in the office or elsewhere.

Do you or your friends or family have Multiple Sclerosis or other autoimmune dieseases? Have you or they been evaluated for leaky gut?

Guru Nanak has stated this in better terms, "Air, water and fire created the life."" "This is a play of active mayopic intelligence by combining air, water and fire,"

Leading academic Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, known for originating the concept and construction of the Compact Muon Solenold (CMS) that led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, has won the ‘Professional of the Year’ award.

The research could help create cures for any number of things using stem cell research. Rajinder, who is heading the effort, is looking for more Indian Sikhs to participate especially from Canada to make a better sample group.

So far we have not seen any scientific discovery that contradicts what Guru Nanak taught about the universe. The End of the Creator and the Creation can not be found... it is still interesting to look at little tid-bits like this...

While Guru Nanak talked about the vast universe 500 years ago, scientists have recently discovered a water source that could supply 140 trillion planets with water.

The idea that dragons once walked the earth among humans--or even existed at all--sounds like something from a fairy tale.

This study hopes to help overcome a dearth of academic literature on Sikhs and their families.

With only one year left to go until its funding runs out, the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station is showing the fruits of its labour in an effort to secure more provincial backing.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown layer lurking in the human eye.

From this comparative study it is found that science is coming to the conclusions very close or almost the same as the ones which the Gurus and saints have already described in the scripture. Science has lot to take from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib for future guidance.

Scientists are revisiting the age-old question of how Earth’s moon formed. New models indicate that it could have been born from the Earth following a giant collision after all.

Why to go far then. You can start understanding yourself and you will understand Him. You are made of physical and the subtle. Physical consists of your physical structure. The inner consists of your energy, your mind and your soul.

Many human issues, admittedly of great significance — religions, nations, war and peace, for instance — are measured by the yardstick of history, which is often the only dependable criterion available. But how honest or reliable is it?

In a potential milestone for ocean management, a team of collaborators has produced the first Ocean Health Index, a tool for appraising the state of the world’s oceans. The index takes into account the major factors that influence the quality of regional marine ecosystems like fisheries, biodiversity, tourism and carbon storage...

Seva is the concept in Sikhi that defines the sharing of one’s life with others. It defines giving unto others in need, not only because of their need but, more importantly, because it sates our own inner need to share and give.

The Higgs boson is perhaps better known by its sexier nickname: the "God particle." But in fact, many scientists, including the physicist for whom it is named, dislike the term.

So we added mystery. There was a part of God we couldn’t understand, so all of the un-understandables were thrown together into a huge basket called, for the lack of a better term, the Mystery.

Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.

Professor Tejinder Singh Virdee FRS ~ On 19 April 2012 was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Females influence the gender of their offspring so they inherit either their mother’s or grandfather’s qualities. ‘High-quality’ females – those which produce more offspring – are more likely to have daughters.

Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old.