Our sensory contact with external reality is limited by the narrow ranges that our sense organs can register. We can see only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum mostly because Earth’s ...

Some people can drop a task midstream, respond to a curveball, and then slide back into deep focus with barely a hitch.

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the ...