The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain ...

For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for scientific exploration, consciousness has been largely left to philosophical ...

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Before you set a mouse trap, you may want to think — because the mouse might be thinking too. A new study has found that mice appear to recognize themselves in the mirror — placing them in a rarified ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said. "Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else's." It's a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness—the question of ...

It’s not for want of data. Ever since Francis Crick, the codiscoverer of DNA’s double helix, legitimized consciousness as a topic for study more than three decades ago, researchers have used a variety ...