Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

The Minnesota Democrat on the battle between his city and the federal government. By Lulu Garcia-Navarro As I grew older, things about my family’s history began to seem … off. By Kwame Anthony Appiah ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

We describe a model of visual processing in which feedback connections from a higher- to a lower-order visual cortical area carry predictions of lower-level neural activities, whereas the feedforward ...

Back in 1993, WIRED’s founders published a manifesto offering some guidance. “Our first instruction to our writers: Amaze us … tell us something we've never heard before, in a way we've never seen ...