Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the ...

Over three consecutive April Fools’ Day features, “Milwaukee Independent” has produced a rare editorial record of how artificial intelligence has evolved from an experimental curiosity into a ...

Nobody likes cables. They're more of a necessary evil in our cars, and sooner or later, everybody ends up using them. However, keeping things organized behind the wheel is essential for most of us.

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make up our mental life. Yet some people report moments when they think about ...

Evolution unfolds in a world that is constantly changing, but not all kinds of change shape populations in the same way. Using a large-scale computer model, researchers replayed evolution across many ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like gadgets, and so, at times, my digital detox has verged on technophilic decadence. A few months ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...