Here's How to Use Dreams for Creative Inspiration

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May 15, 2023

Creativity Here's How to Use Dreams for Creative Inspiration Channeling Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí, researchers show that shaping dream imagery could spark creative ideas to target a specific problem By Ingrid Wickelgren

Astrophysics Is Time Travel Even Possible? Two SciAm editors duke it out to see if wormholes and multiverses could in fact exist. By Lee Billings,Clara Moskowitz,Alexa Lim,Tulika Bose | 07:26

Climate Change Hawaii Has Permafrost, and Scientists Are Racing to Study It before It's Gone Permafrost can—incongruously—be found in Hawaii, but surveys show it has been shrinking over time, in part because of climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Psychology People in the U.S. Think They Are Better Than They Actually Are. People in Asia Don't Western individualism may promote a “better than you actually are” mindset By Shinobu Kitayama

Astronomy Elon Musk's Starship Won't Save Astronomy from Satellites Cluttering the Sky Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem By Phil Plait

Animals Lab-Grown Monkey Embryos Reveal in 3-D How Organs Begin At 25 days old, these specimens could be the oldest primate embryos ever grown outside the womb By Gemma Conroy,Nature magazine

Astronomy Betelguese's Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle Betelgeuse, the red star at the shoulder of the constellation Orion, has been acting strange, raising hopes for the spectacle of a lifetime By Meghan Bartels

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison's Napping Technique Waking yourself from the twilight state just before sleep may help you to solve a challenging problem, a study shows By Bret Stetka | December 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING The Complicated History of How the Earth's Atmosphere Became Breathable Biology, geology, and chemistry all worked together to make the present atmosphere. By Howard Lee | Ars Technica | May 15, 2023

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