From our narrow vantage point on Earth, how can we see what's out there, beyond our skies? We look to how scientists and scholars have studied eclipses, dark matter, deep-space transmissions from intelligent life and more, all in the hopes of painting a clearer picture of a vast and invisible universe.
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Mind Over Matter A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of mind or consciousness — including, as one biologist suggests, the Sun itself. In a fascinating dive into this worldview, which adherents call "panpsychism," Popular Mechanics reports that this out-there concept has, in fact, existed for thousands of years, and in its […]
There are 86 billion neurons in your brain, roughly the same number as there are galaxies in the observable universe. Whether the mind is more complex than the cosmos, however, is up for debate