After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...

Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

Traipse into the world of artificial intelligence research, and it won’t take long to stumble across a concept known as the ...

In a nutshell Mind blanking is real, and it’s not just zoning out. Neuroscientists have identified it as a distinct mental ...

They become aware, mid-dream, that they’re dreaming. They explore their fantasies with the same sense of self as they have ...

Mind blanking isn’t daydreaming. It's something more akin to meditation — but not quite the same. On any given day, your ...

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...

But scientists have increasingly been using systematic and rigorous methods to investigate consciousness, she says. In a study published in Science today 1, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at ...

Results of a clinical trial finds several outcomes improved for young children when an anesthesiologist observed their brain waves to guide dosing of sevoflurane during surgery.

What happens to us after we die? While theology explores the soul’s spiritual journey, philosophy questions its role in consciousness and existence. P ...