A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

CAMBRIDGE, MA – By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases. But a human has ...

William King, a professor of Criminal Justice, and co-authors recently published a paper, “Resurrecting individual ...

Does our technology improve in an evolutionary way? Is it a random walk of trial and error, with false starts and breakthroughs? Or can a theory accelerate improvement and eliminate the needless dead ...

Causal Set Theory (CST) offers a compelling approach to reconciling quantum theory and general relativity by postulating that spacetime, at its most fundamental level, is discrete rather than ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

Researchers developed theoretical foundations for methods that could identify the best way to aggregate genes into modules and efficiently learn the underlying cause-and-effect relationships among ...