Rats do not simply drift through vague, sleepy fog. Their brains light up with detailed replays of the day, from sprinting ...

Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to ...

Neurable, the company behind the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology capable of integrating into consumer headphones, announces a new venture at CES 2026 last week: gaming headphones.

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

The Stranger Things final battle was inspired by Baldur’s Gate 3, the Duffer Brothers have revealed. Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5, Episode 8, The Rightside Up, follow: In the finale, ...

A sharper, more resilient mind starts here. Monday Test Your Knowledge Tuesday MIND Your Diet Wednesday Try a New Workout Thursday Play a Game Welcome to Day 2 of the Brain Health Challenge. Today, we ...

During the Cold War, the US government secretly explored using individuals with claimed psychic abilities, known as remote viewers, as spies to gain an edge over the Soviet Union. Project Star Gate, ...

If a baby starts to cry several hours after drinking his last bottle, his mother knows precisely what he's feeling: He's hungry. But suppose a woman's eyes brim with tears while she watches a DVD. Her ...

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In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only theorized for fusion plasmas, enabling stable operation under conditions that ...

The experimental achievements provide new physical insights into breaking through the long-standing density limit in tokamak operations.Chinese Academy of Sciences Researchers in China have ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...