What's the origin of one of the most powerful images ever made? A new Netflix documentary reopens the debate over the ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...

Declassified documents show that throughout the latter half of the 20 th century, the CIA had some... interesting... ideas on how to obtain intelligence. One of the most dizzying reports comes from a ...