Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Modern physics has been shaped by great minds, yet somehow physics hasn’t explained what the mind is. For decades consciousness was not a respectable area of inquiry in physics, yet the great quantum ...

The neuron, the specialized cell type that makes up much of our brain, is at the center of today’s neuroscience. Neuroscientists explain perception, memory, cognition and even consciousness itself as ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing ...

Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The discovery of the Higgs boson (or the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen 10,000 times sooner than expected. Fortunately, it still ...