Have you ever watched something that made you question everything you thought you knew? Documentaries have this incredible ...

A Sussex neuroscientist features in a documentary exploring dementia and the nature of consciousness.

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

In the 1990s, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick declared that “consciousness is not a philosophical problem anymore but a neuro-scientific one, and we are going to crack it in the next two decades.” ...

This graphic is part of a special report on consciousness. Read the full feature here. Theorists have proposed many explanations for consciousness. They are startlingly diverse, with different goals, ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...