Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

The results of this experiment appear to indicate that the presentation of encouraging and supportive platitudes may actually ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

We have investigated six young people who claimed the power of bending objects by stroking in the manner demonstrated on television recently by Uri Geller and others ...