Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of everything and instead just a bridge from a previous universe into our own? As unconventional as this may seem, the belief is held by a Nobel Prize-winning ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The world's leading center for research into the origins of matter on Wednesday took a giant step toward the launch of a 15-year experiment which scientists hope will unlock many ...