Science is not merely the smooth progressive interaction of hypothesis, experiment and
theory, although it sometimes has that form. More realistically the scientific study of any …

About a hundred years ago, the Russian biologist A. Gurwitsch, based on experiments with
onion plants by measuring their growth rate, hypothesized that plants emit a weak …

We study the electroencephalogram (EEG) of 30 closed-eye awake subjects with a
technique of analysis recently proposed to detect punctual events signaling rapid transitions …

The paper reviews recent advances in studies of electric discharges in the stratosphere and
mesosphere above thunderstorms, and their effects on the atmosphere. The primary focus is …

Resting-state EEG signals undergo rapid transition processes (RTPs) that glue otherwise
stationary epochs. We study the fractal properties of RTPs in space and time, supporting the …

We review the literature to argue the importance of the occurrence of crucial events in the
dynamics of physiological processes. Crucial events are interpreted as short time intervals of …

Experimental work, both in vitro and in vivo, reveals the occurrence of neural avalanches
with an inverse power law distribution in size and time duration. These properties are …

In this paper, we establish a clear distinction between two processes yielding anomalous
diffusion and 1/f noise. The first process is called Stationary Fractional Brownian Motion …

We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique
designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. We analyze the dark count signal …

In this paper we try to model certain features of human language complexity by means of
advanced concepts borrowed from statistical mechanics. We use a time series approach, the …