Scientists are using terahertz waves to study tiny structures in brain cells, called microtubules, that may be linked to ...

Researchers believe that chanting may induce altered states of consciousness—but they aren’t completely sure why. Possible ...

Is consciousness produced by the brain, or is it a deeper feature of reality? This question is a key focus of Christof Koch, ...

This noninvasive technology reaches deeper into the brain, with greater resolution, than techniques such as EEG and MRI. It ...

You reach for your coffee mid-conversation and find it already in your hand. That gap between intention and action is where ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

What is the nature of your reality? What if your consciousness, your subjective reality, does not bring you closer to the objective reality of our world? This is the question that Professor Donald ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

The ICCS Conference arrives at a moment when consciousness research is becoming harder to contain within any single di ...

These are good times to be a thinking, conscious creature, despite events in the world that might make us doubt that. These are even better times to be a creature who thinks about consciousness: the ...