When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging a basic assumption about how the brain produces awareness. Where conventional theories treat consciousness as a product of neuronal firing alone, ...

Sleep science now explains why the “mind after midnight” specialises in horror stories, and why we should never trust our night-time cognitions, which are driven by negativity bias ...

Hours before he left for the music festival he had been looking forward to for weeks, George Zographou confided in his older ...

Knight City #2 from Dark Horse hits stores Wednesday, March 18th, continuing Matt Kindt and David Lapham's three-issue series ...

The first time I left my own body, I was sitting on my balcony. Sunlight was refracting through the glass behind me, forming a beautiful rainbow 'X' on the floor.

After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

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Boost your brain health with six science‑backed habits from sleep and exercise to nutrition and social connection that will enhance memory, mood, and cognitive vitality.

Have you ever felt calmer almost as soon as you step into the woods? Or maybe noticed your busy mind soften as you look out at the sea? We have known for some time, and many of us sense it intuitively ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed ...

As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.