A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

The Global Consciousness Project EGG experiments at Princeton set out to measure consciousness using sophisticated equipment worldwide to human reactions to major newsmaking events even moments even ...

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 ...

The controversial idea that quantum effects in the brain can explain consciousness has passed a key test. Experiments show that anaesthetic drugs reduce how long tiny structures found in brain cells ...

People also receive the constant messages in varying degrees depending on their openness to its signals. Those who have read the book "The Secret Life of Plants" learned of Cleve Backster's ...