What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

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Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

Data collection for this study was supported by the Massey University Strategic Research Excellence Fund. Matt Williams also receives funding from the Marsden Fund Council, managed by the Royal ...

Outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a New Jersey man held up his hand for a camera as he told a local TV reporter about the chaotic scene he’d just witnessed inside the building. His palm was smeared ...

A theory never becomes a fact. It is an explanation of one or more facts. Many scientists, including the late Stephen Hawking, are happy to say that a theory never becomes a fact. It is always an ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. There has been a proliferation of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that either reject the existence of the ...