This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

What is it like to be a bat? Or a dog, dolphin, frog — or even a plant? To have experience of some sort is generally how we conceive of consciousness. But it also presents scientists with a ...

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 ...

For centuries, we’ve tried to understand what makes us aware. Is consciousness just the brain firing signals – or something ...

More than 400 years ago Galileo showed that many everyday phenomena—such as a ball rolling down an incline or a chandelier gently swinging from a church ceiling—obey precise mathematical laws. For ...

Consciousness is what we are most familiar with. Feeling the sun's warmth on our face, the joy of seeing someone we love, or the thrill of being on a rollercoaster—every single experience we ever had, ...

In a new study, researchers say they have laid the foundation for solving the controversial question of whether the principles of quantum mechanics can help solve one of life’s most enduring mysteries ...

You have almost certainly seen computer-generated fractals – beautiful, trippy images in which colourful, intricate structures repeat ad infinitum as you fall ever further down the rabbit hole.