A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...

For decades, scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers have been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes — realms that may exist beyond our own, each potentially with its own version ...

Mind = blown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death is one of the few questions science approaches with both rigor and humility. While it can’t speak to meaning or purpose, it ...