A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death is one of the few questions science approaches with both rigor and humility. While it can’t speak to meaning or purpose, it ...

For decades, scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers have been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes — realms that may exist beyond our own, each potentially with its own version ...

Mind = blown.

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing ...

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