The Wellcome Photography Prize awards photographers who show how science affects human health around the world.

“Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Humans are, in effect, hardwired to sing and dance, and we likely evolved to do so. In every known culture, evidence exists ...

The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...