St. Francis of Assisi was the antithesis of a Machiavellian leader. Born in 1181, the future saint renounced his father’s wealth, then spent the remainder of his life wandering around northern Italy ...

Pigeons’ secret talent for detecting cancer can be used to inform medical AI tools that could prevent human error, according to a recent study. It is crucial to detect potential signs of cancer ...

Source: #2194100587/by Deagreez/iStock.com In the movie Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais’ character finds out he’d temporarily died during a routine procedure—and the hospital staff hadn’t told him. He ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

What happens when we die? It’s one of the single greatest questions in the history of humankind, silently driving science and religion for centuries. The standard reductionist model says consciousness ...

Non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) is a guided relaxation practice that helps the brain enter a deeply restful state. It is similar to light sleep, but it cannot replace the biological functions of sleep.

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers developing medical AI tools have a new inspiration: pigeons. Researchers in the US are reportedly studying pigeons' visual abilities to help develop AI tools ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from ...

In a study published earlier this year, DiGirolamo and his colleagues successfully trained six pigeons to watch short CT scan ...