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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:To the late neuroscientist James Doty, “manifestation” may be more than just pseudoscience. Instead of the mysticism commonly associated with the term, Doty theorized that manifestation works by embedding an intention into your subconscious mind, which passively drives you toward accomplishing a goal. This method not only shaped Doty’s life, but perhaps the lives of other figures, too. When Dolly Parton was a poor, young girl growing up in rural Tennessee, she would fashion a fake microphone out of sticks and tin cans and sing to her siblings while dreaming of being on stage at the Grand Ole Opry. “That little microphone just brought me all the way to the top of the world from the top of the Smoky Mountains,” she told People magazine in 2025. Could Parton have manifested these dreams into reality? According to the late James Doty, MD, it’s possible. Doty’s idea of manifestation is not rooted in New Age spiritual practices popular on social media that posit all you need to do is put dreams out into the world and they will come true. Instead, Doty’s method is based in real, practical science.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.