One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.

One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe experiences like believing you hear your name called while you ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop ...

We tend to break things down into smaller components to make remembering easier. Event Segmentation Theory explains how we do ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing prompt-based editing to the world of sound with a new model called SAM Audio that can segment individual sounds from complex audio recordings.

Occam’s razor is the principle that, all else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more complex ones. This principle is thought to guide human decision-making, but the nature of ...

Known for his immersive environments and otherworldly lamps, the artist’s latest show at Petzel Gallery invites viewers to ...

From procrastination to attempting self-harm, self-sabotaging ways may be the brain’s way of avoiding perceived danger, ...

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New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.