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India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor has achieved criticality, marking a significant milestone in its civil nuclear energy program.
If you've ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes this ancient practice is quite the opposite: meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity that profoundly alters brain dynamics. Researchers from the University of Montreal and Italy's National Research Council recruited twelve monks of the Thai Forest Tradition at Santacittārāma, a Buddhist monastery outside Rome.