What do brains and the stock market have in common? While this might sound like a set-up for a joke, new research from U-M ...
Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form ...
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...
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Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...
Celebrated European scientist is one of the world’s first to use brain-imaging tech to study hidden awareness in unresponsive ...
Science still faces mysteries like dark matter, consciousness, and the origin of life—questions that challenge researchers and push the limits of understanding.
When Dan Brown finally returned in 2025 with The Secret of Secrets—the sixth Robert Langdon adventure—the world that devoured ...
As an individual facing today’s wars and geopolitical complexity—witnessing so much suffering—I often feel powerless and sad; but I refuse to remain there. I turn that feeling into a direction ...
As AI and brain technologies develop at a breathtaking speed, scientists are warning that one of the oldest and most ...
The CDC reports that 40 percent of Gen Z feel persistently sad, and doom-scrolling has been linked to clinical pathology, ...
They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells. These aren’t your fictional mad scientists’ brains in a vat; they’re ...
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