Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have observed for the first time a chiral water superstructure templated around a biomolecule. Although many studies have demonstrated the direct interaction of water with highly important macromolecules like DNA, the latest study is a final confirmation that water forms a unique and enduring super-structure around the DNA double helix -- stabilizing the molecular conformation, mediating its functionality and interaction with important information intermediaries like RNA polymerase.

Taken in consideration with other recent reports, such as the direct mapping of molecular couplings and energy exchange between DNA backbone vibrations and water with femtosecond infrared spectroscopy, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the central role of water in some of the most important of biological functions. Water forms hydration patterns around biomolecules via hydrogen bond interactions -- and is...

Article by William Brown, Biophysicist, Resonance Science Foundation Research Scientist

In communicating the progress of scientific theories and tests, experimental results are often presented to the public as concrete and indisputable, therefore proving this-or-that idea. This leads to the common misconception that scientific models can in fact become proven, instead of the more nuanced reality that they are only the most precise (sometimes extremely precise) and accurate models approximating what we can discern, and the very notion of evidence always suggest a degree of interpretation.

The results of quantum entanglement experiments are a case-in-point. The results of data from particle accelerators to optical Bell tests (experiments that test entanglement) are statistical, such that conclusions are drawn based on the probability of a series of measurements being random or “true signals”. This goes for detection of Higgs, W, and Z bosons as well as whether...

Magnetoencephalographic signal diversity shows brain in higher state of consciousness when under the influence of psychoactive compounds. Empirically, measures of neural signal diversity score higher for wakeful rest that for states with lower conscious level like anesthesia. New research analyzing the magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals from humans during altered states of consciousness induced by psychedelic substances have found higher MEG signal diversity than those found in normal waking states of consciousness. This is the first time such increased levels of neural signal diversity, correlated to higher states of consciousness, have been measured in the psychedelic state.

It is interesting to speculate whether the fine-grain increase of signal complexity of the electromagnetic field generated by the brain is enabling the mind to tune into more vivid and expanded states of awareness. The most recent research does reveal selective correlations between changes in...

Article by William Brown, Biophysicist, Resonance Science Foundation Research Scientist

Nonlocality is a property observed in quantum entangled systems and is largely regarded as having no classical explanation. Nonlocal correlations and phenomena describe the state in which entangled systems appear to be connected regardless of spatial or temporal separation, even beyond what is normally confined by the speed of light and causal order.

It seems this would mandate that there is some sort of faster-than-light connection between quantum entangled systems or that objects do not really exist unless they are somehow observed. Interestingly, most physicist choose the latter explanation, since it is erroneously believed that superluminal correlations would violate the principle of relativity of simultaneity of Einstein’s well known theory — seeming to dismiss or neglect that the general theory of relativity permits extended and connected spacetime geometries...

A class known as left-handed metamaterials have been predicted to produce levitation via a repulsive force from the quantum vacuum:

“Left-handed metamaterials make perfect lenses that image classical electromagnetic fields with significantly higher resolution than the diffraction limit. Here, we consider the quantum physics of such devices. We show that the Casimir force of two conducting plates may turn from attraction to repulsion if a perfect lens is sandwiched between them. For optical left-handed metamaterials, this repulsive force of the quantum vacuum may levitate ultra-thin mirrors.” — Quantum Levitation by Left-Handed Metamaterials

As eluded to in a previous commentary...