Pocket Archive: Science & Consciousness

The Nuance How to Age-Proof Your Brain At 30, your mental muscles have likely already begun to weaken In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he managed to go bankrupt. “Two …

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The new study showed the moon's influence on sleep duration and quality, with some participants in a multi-year experiment seeing shorter rest on nights during the waxing period compared to what was observed in the waning interval.

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Some scientists believe the universe is conscious. Sounds like a bad trip ... but what if it's true?

An XKCD comic — and its many remixes — perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research

Regular coffee consumption can enhance concentration and improve motor control and alertness by inducing functional and connectivity changes in the brain, a new imaging study shows.

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Researchers add analysis to the mix to move beyond anecdotes

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Researchers have provided clues to how the gut and brain work together by studying health data from nearly half a million people.

A rare interview with bestselling author Tim Ferriss on his quarantine philosophy, funding psychedelic research, and why “not everything that is meaningful can be measured.”

International scientists have unlocked a new and exciting avenue to explore the world of dreams.

This paper assessed whether belief in conspiracy theories was associated with a particularly cognitive style (worldview). The sample comprised 223 volunteers...

The psychedelic state induced by LSD appears to weaken the association between anatomical brain structure and functional connectivity, according to new

Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages -- and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.

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Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals. Now researchers have discovered the first example of an animal domesticating another animal, with a fish species found to recruit shrimp to tend their algae farms.

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The holographic universe principle suggests that we're living in a simulated reality. Essentially, it claims our physical world is nothing more than a detailed illusion, and while this is unlikely, the idea does have some interesting science supporting it.

Hallucinogens like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin (a compound derived from certain species of mushrooms) were being researched in medicine as therapeutic agents before their recreational popularity boomed in the 1960s. Unfortunately, that era gave them a negative connotation and since then the research