In earlier parenting days, my family often passed car-ride time by playing One-Word Story. Each passenger sequentially contributed a single word to an evolving story. While the Pulitzer committee has ...

D enial, distraction, misdirection, minimization. These are a few of the common tactics of gaslighting, a form of ...

Scientists revealed the results of experiments testing how our brains give rise to conscious thought — and ended a 25-year-old bet. By Carl Zimmer On a muggy June night in Greenwich Village, more than ...

A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. Science routinely puts ...