The sense of smell is vital for animals, as it helps them find food, protect themselves from predators and interact socially. An international research team led by Dr. Quentin Martinez and Dr. Eli ...

More than two weeks after a shocking accident during the Miss Universe preliminaries in Bangkok, the organization behind the ...

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Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave of research is converging on a more grounded answer, suggesting that ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

The hypnagogic state is so creative because, as we hover between sleep and wakefulness, the conscious mind is barely active. For a brief period, our mental boundaries are permeable, and there is a ...

In the end, trauma isn’t proof that you’re broken.Instead, it’s our species’ primordial intelligence, frozen in time. But ...

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 ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.