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A doctor has made claims about the afterlife after suggesting that horrific near-death experiences involving visions of hell ...

The first randomized, controlled trial for a common childhood eating disorder has shown how therapists and parents can help those struggling with the condition, known as avoidant restrictive food ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

A large analysis of brain imaging and clinical data from more than 17,000 older adults is revealing a more complex picture of Alzheimer’s disease risk across populations.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Deep within the dark caves of northeastern Mexico lives a fish that has spent hundreds of thousands of years adapting to a world without light. The blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus) has ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...