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LiveScience- Researchers are trying to find out what happens in the brain during cardiac arrest, and how this causes near-death experiences. (Read more)

Yahoo! News/Weird Science- Pleasant scents give rise to pleasant dreams, and foul smells turn fantasy to phantasmagoria: so concludes a small, unreplicated and wholly plausible study on odor and dreaming. (more)

BU Today- Prof seeks to unlock insomnia, nightmares, and mysteries of REM sleep. (more)

LiveScience- Monsters are everywhere these days, and belief in them is as strong as ever. Scientists are investigating the difference between religious belief and belief in the supernatural and why people hold them. (more)

Reuters- Scientists have identified a primitive area of the brain that makes us adventurous. (more)

Boston Globe- Most Americans say they believe in God, they pray, and they attend worship services regularly; they also believe in angels and demons, in heaven and hell, and in miracles. But they also say, contradicting the teachings of many faiths, that truth comes in many forms. (more)

The Boston Globe- Animals have different patterns of rest. By understanding them, researchers hope they’ll figure out why we snooze. (more)

Reuters- Being deprived of sleep even for one night makes the brain unstable and prone to sudden shutdowns akin to a power failure — brief lapses that hover between sleep and wakefulness, researchers said on Tuesday. (more)

LiveScience- Sleep Waking is an unusual art work that combines recorded brainwave activity and REM sleep with robot behaviors. The Sleep Waking robot plays back your dreams, or, if you will, presents an interpretive dance of your dreams. (more)

The Boston Globe-A growing fraction of Americans identify themselves as unaffiliated with any religious tradition, and a small but increasingly significant number say they are Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Orthodox Christian. (more)