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The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Environment

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

black hole

Physics

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

speech waveform

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

Thomas Metzinger is a philosopher at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany

Health

Virtual reality could be an ethical minefield – are we ready?

A fern growing out of a stone wall at Machu Picchu

Environment

Plants have evolved forgetfulness to wipe out memory of stress

Physics

Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all

A person gazes into the distance. The background is out of focus

Humans

How to prove controversial consciousness theory? Ask a physicist

driving

Humans

NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

Physics

A black hole’s edge will burn you up if you try to escape

Life

Impulsive people may have less free will than the rest of us

Physics

Supermassive black holes might be hiding entire universes inside

Mind

Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines?