For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

The clinically dead patients also had spikes of gamma, delta, theta, alpha and beta brain waves associated with thinking and ...

In the Western world, those who succeed are usually very good at one specific skill: critical thinking. These people can recognize a problem, analyze data, and reason solutions very well. At the ...

Maha Shivratri is regarded as the most spiritually charged night of the year. According to scriptures, chanting this mantra ...

Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Lt Gen Narendra Kotwal (R) narendrakotwal@gmail.com Maha Shivaratri, observed in 2026 on Sunday, 15 (Phalguna Krishna ...

Today devotees will turn to powerful chants to invoke strength, stillness and inner transformation and invite Lord Shiva's blessings in their lives. Here are some of the most beloved Shiva mantras and ...

Every year, as millions of devotees across India and the world stay awake through the night in prayer, fasting, and ...

Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...