When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

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A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

At the time, the study of happiness was far from the wellness mega-field it has become today. In the ’60s, a researcher ...

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In "So Very Small," author Thomas Levenson recounts the complex history of how humans came to discover germs and the ...

Kahneman said not to expect the results to change anyone's mind, even if they decisively favored one theory over another.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed a secret database holds the truth about vaccines and autism. Now that he's in charge, ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

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GNWT, by contrast, argues that consciousness occurs when certain information is “broadcast” across a network of brain regions ...