It's that time of year again: the wild bluebells give the Belgian Hallerbos, which stretches over Flemish and Walloon Brabant, its annual enchanting purple glow. And this weekend, these beautiful ...

A purple wave of faulty streetlights has swept across the USA, generating incorrect theories, bad lighting and fans of an accidental aesthetic.

Scientists have long suspected that exposure to nature may reduce people’s experience of pain, and now there may be research to prove it. A new study led by a team from the University of Vienna ...

Screens shown to the participants displayed three different images: a nature scene, an urban scene and a control scene of a nondescript room. Their brains were then checked to see if there was a ...

The team discovered that the raw sensory signals the brain receives when something hurts were reduced when watching a carefully designed, high quality, 5-minute, virtual nature scene. What’s ...

Summary: Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found. Researchers discovered that participants reported less pain and exhibited altered ...

From March to April each year, these purple-blue blossoms adorn the city's streets, parks, and squares, creating a picturesque scene. An aerial drone photo taken on March 23, 2025 shows blooming ...

“Our study is the first to provide evidence from brain scans that this isn’t just a placebo effect,” Steininger said in a statement. The nature scenes provoked decreased activity in a part of the ...