The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is ...

The human brain did not evolve to wake up with an alarm clock, check strangers’ achievements on social media, learn about the latest global disaster and calculate its social worth before breakfast.

We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new research aims to turn that relationship around—using large language models ...

Thomas Berry was a cultural historian who sounded an urgent alarm at the state of humanity and the planet. He inspired readers of his many books to reclaim humanity’s role as the consciousness of the ...

Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in ...

If you’ve read much about psychology or evolution, it’s easy to get the idea that humans are hardwired to act as if the world revolves around themselves. But my team’s new study joins a growing body ...

In August, Daniel Paschal, AKA Magnum Tenebrosum, a mysterious author and shadowy architect of darkness, will release The Abyss of the Mind, the first part of his new series exploring the depths of ...

Scientists find out if the power can be unlocked with a sugar pill.

Most of us grew up hearing tales of Lord Hanuman, the divine child whose courage, innocence and boundless energy shaped the course of an entire epic. Yet very few know that the name we chant today was ...