New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Panprotopsychism claims that the fundamental building blocks of reality have properties that are the precursors to consciousness. It has all the problems of panpsychism.

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

Do our spirits live on after death? To the surprise of some, many scientists and philosophers argue that there is evidence ...

Scientists have successfully recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway responsible for transmitting pain signals to the human brain, an achievement that represents a major step forward in ...

Scientists at the Allen Institute, a research center in Seattle, then sliced that piece of the mouse’s brain into more than 25,000 layers, each a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair ...

A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos in graduate school ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing.” His words served as a challenge. Seung ...

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.