THE old saying that suggests "you are what you eat" may actually become true after researchers at Penn State University discovered a way to break down human waste so that it can be eaten as an hygienic protein paste.
The NASA-funded study is seeking to make long-haul space flight more practical, with food supply just one of the major hurdles to conquer.
So the next time someone says to you that they've "eaten like crap lately", maybe dig a little deeper because this may no longer be just a turn of phrase.
Conventional wisdom typically associates someone who talks to themselves as being on the pathway to a mental breakdown, however new evidence suggests that hearing voices may mean you simply have a "well-tuned brain."
Researchers from Durham University studied the brain responses of both people who hear voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) and those who have never experienced it.
When both groups listened to "sine-wave speech", which to most people sounds like gibberish, far more of the voice hearers could detect the embedded hidden words, suggesting they are more in tune with the meaning in sounds.
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