consciousness
Nerve Implant Partially Restores Man’s Consciousness After 15-Year Vegetative State
A "pacemaker for the brain" may help people in a persistent vegetative state partially regain consciousness.
Psychedelics Can Fundamentally Change the Way You See Yourself
'Dissolving your ego' could help improve mental health.
Evolution is Not What We Thought
The things we thought we understood about Europeans are coming unstuck as we examine the genes of more ancient people.
Is This What Consciousness Looks Like?
Scientists have mapped a giant neuron in mice that may help explain how the brain is wired.
Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren't Living in a Simulation
A simulated apple can't feed anybody, and other reality checks by a philosopher and a cognitive scientist.
Neuroscientists Hunt the Line Where Consciousness Begins—and Ends
Brain scan-based experiments mapping metabolism in the brain offer a new level of resolution.
The Moon-Walking, Alien-Hunting, Psychic Astronaut Who Got Sued By NASA
A Radio Motherboard chat with the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the moon and a connoisseur of consciousness, psychics, and aliens.
For the First Time, Scientists Have Imaged the Brain on LSD
The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.
Art, Science, and Folklore Tackle the Mysteries of Human Consciousness
Delve into the oddities of human consciousness at 'States of Mind,' a new exhibit at London's Wellcome Collection.
Next of Kin
Standing on her doormat were Col. Makepeace and a chaplain she didn’t recognize. Diana knew what it meant: her husband was dead, and she'd have to do something about the body.
The Japanese Professor Who's Spent Three Decades Perfecting a Human Avatar
Susumu Tachi feels like the moment for telexistence has finally come.