Consciousness is one of the deepest mysteries in modern science, influencing our thoughts, sensations, and experiences. This ...

Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does.

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

What if consciousness is central to reality, quantum mechanics, and the future alignment of artificial general intelligence?

Millions report near-death experiences. Are these the brain’s final “simulation” of life, or is there something else going on ...

The human brain is, by most accounts, completely unhinged. We spend roughly a third of our lives unconscious, and we still ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way around. Should this theory hold up, it would rewrite our understanding of ...

Science has replaced superstition. Technology has liberated humanity from primitive explanations about spirits, transcendence ...

A single psychedelic trip may cause physical changes in the brain that could explain why some people report psychological ...

NASA scientist Ingrid Honkala claims to have had three near-death experiences and says she saw the same afterlife each time ...