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What Separates Human Intelligence From AI? Scientists Say the Answer May Be Chemistry

Chrissy Newton·September 19, 2026

A new biochemical model of memory suggests that the chemistry of the human brain may represent a fundamental difference between biological and artificial intelligence.

New Research Suggests Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common—and More Meaningful—Than Expected

Chrissy Newton·August 6, 2026

A recent study suggests that "nonordinary" experiences involving unusual phenomena may be more universal than previously thought.

We Need a Way to Detect Conscious AI Before It’s Too Late—Here’s What Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm

Tim McMillan·June 5, 2026

Could Conscious AI be closer than we think? Researchers propose a new method to detect machine awareness before the question becomes urgent.

Rethinking Consciousness: Could Everything From Animals to AI Be Aware?

Tim McMillan·May 18, 2026

A new paper argues that scientists may need a radically new approach to studying consciousness, including in animals and AI.

New Theory Suggests Consciousness May Come From a Hidden Wave in the Brain—Not Neurons

Tim McMillan·February 26, 2026

New theory suggests consciousness may arise from a hidden brain wave, challenging long-held beliefs about neurons and awareness.

What Happens to Consciousness After Death? Scientists and Researchers Are Still Debating This Age Old Question

Chrissy Newton·February 6, 2026

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to it after we die.

New DMT Study Reveals How the Brain Loses Its Sense of Self Under the Psychedelic Compound’s Influence

Austin Burgess·December 6, 2025

A new neuroscience study reports that the psychedelic compound DMT disrupts a key brain rhythm linked to self-awareness.

human consciousness

What Separates Human Intelligence From AI? Scientists Say the Answer May Be Chemistry

New Research Suggests Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common—and More Meaningful—Than Expected

We Need a Way to Detect Conscious AI Before It’s Too Late—Here’s What Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm

Rethinking Consciousness: Could Everything From Animals to AI Be Aware?

New Theory Suggests Consciousness May Come From a Hidden Wave in the Brain—Not Neurons

What Happens to Consciousness After Death? Scientists and Researchers Are Still Debating This Age Old Question

New DMT Study Reveals How the Brain Loses Its Sense of Self Under the Psychedelic Compound’s Influence

Future Wars Could Stretch From the Seabed to Cislunar Space, America’s Top General Warns

A Pompeii-Like Eruption Buried This Landscape 22 Million Years Ago—Scientists Just Discovered What Lies Beneath

A Volcanic Seafloor Collapse Released a Massive Tsunami, and Scientists Got an Extremely Rare Look at the Submarine Devastation

Mathematician Says Relationships Have a Critical Threshold—and Crossing It Can Predict When Love Falls Apart

Scientists May Have Uncovered a ‘Holy Grail’ for Deciphering the Lost Scrolls of Herculaneum—By Burning Modern Papyrus

A 3,600-Year-Old Burial Mound in Azerbaijan Held Weapons and a Mysterious Stone Scepter

4,000-Year-Old Fortification in Morocco Reveals a Lost Bronze Age Society in North Africa

Astronomers Detected Three Mysterious “Glitches” in a Pulsar That Had Gone Silent for Years

Physicists Report Levitation Experiment That May Signal a Breakthrough in the Search for Mysterious Dark Matter

First-of-a-Kind Experiments Demonstrate Effects of Einstein’s Gravity in the Quantum World