The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

What is the nature of your reality? What if your consciousness, your subjective reality, does not bring you closer to the objective reality of our world? This is the question that Professor Donald ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

Modern physics has been shaped by great minds, yet somehow physics hasn’t explained what the mind is. For decades consciousness was not a respectable area of inquiry in physics, yet the great quantum ...

In the movie Gravity, the astronauts’ futuristic helmets have special, high-tech shades that can display critical information, such as the amount of oxygen left in the oxygen tank. (The helmet has a ...

I’d like to explain one of the great mysteries faced by spiritual seekers. On the surface this mystery sounds simple. The most basic statement of it is this: You don’t have to go anywhere to reach ...

TikTok users are taking fan culture to the next level by practicing a sort of meditation in an effort to "shift realities" to inhabit the fictional universe of their choosing. It's sort of like a more ...