Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain running on ordinary neural computation would be conscious either.
Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau's estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth.
Half the ingredients in what most of the world now considers its national cuisine were, on 11 October 1492, on the opposite side of the planet from where they would eventually be eaten.
In 1966, Murray Bowen formalised the family projection process, a clinical account of how anxiety can move through family relationships. Later behavioural and epigenetic studies examine different mechanisms and do not establish Bowen’s model as inherited biology.
Here is a fact that probably unsettles almost everything a psychology textbook taught you about human motivation: the pyramid at the centre of the story was never drawn by the man whose name it carries.
The chemical mechanism that binds a human mother to her nursing infant appears to also bind a human to their family dog — and, on the available experimental…
The most heavily militarized strip of land on Earth is also, on the available scientific evidence, one of the most ecologically important.
The 724 teenage boys who agreed to be studied for the rest of their lives in 1938 did not know that the single most reliable predictor of their eventual…
In all six events, the paper found conditions that exceeded HEAT-Lim's non-survivable thresholds for older people in direct sun.
Nunchi, the Korean practice of reading a room before speaking, overlaps with theory of mind, emotion recognition and self-regulation. The cited studies test those related constructs, not nunchi itself.
Sister Mary should not, by any reasonable interpretation of late-20th-century Alzheimer's neuropathology, have been able to teach seventh and eighth grades for…
Nobody knows who invented the letter A. Nobody knows who invented the letter B, or C, or almost any other letter of the writing systems used by the world's major languages.
The Eiffel Tower's existence, in its original 1880s context, was a deeply contested proposition.
On 26 September 1991, eight people entered Biosphere 2, a sealed glass and steel structure in Oracle, Arizona, built to test whether a human-made ecosystem could keep people alive for two years.
A new synthesis from early childhood neuroscience argues that shared laughter does specific, measurable work in the infant brain — though the full picture is more incremental than the headlines suggest.
The space race that produced Vostok 1 had begun in earnest approximately three and a half years earlier, on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the…
