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The experiment suggests that the animals are “not just driven by simple, emotional responses” but “have rather complex ...

Frankenstein has inspired collectors to seek out artifacts of the monster and his maker. This group illustrates the ...

"Those of us who spent time with him realized that he was a real life 'Indiana Jones' long before that archetype had a name," said his niece Catherine Nixon Cooke.

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

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Instead, intellectual integrity should make us open to indirect evidence that comes from beyond the realm of ordinary ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...