The question of, “What is consciousness?” is no longer exclusively the realm of ancient philosophers and dorm-room debaters. In the last few years, scientists across all kinds of disciplines have been ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

Chinese and French scientists have created a comprehensive blueprint of the crab-eating macaque's claustrum, advancing ...

The debate over the source of human consciousness has persisted for thousands of years, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. While we have made huge advancements in neuroscience in recent years, our ...

A baffling new theory to explain human consciousness has suggested it comes from hidden dimensions and is not just brain ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

One prominent theory holds that the core of human consciousness is not our impressive neocortex, but our much more primitive midbrain. This simple structure synthesizes sensory data into a unified ...

but shaped human consciousness as a whole over the thousands of generations that humans had been eating psychedelic fungi.” We know—that’s a lot to take in. And yet, it’s just the beginning.