A mysterious optical illusion is baffling scientists by triggering real physical reactions in the eyes of most people—while leaving others completely unaffected.

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive the world—and create the world we perceive ...

Here's something that keeps me awake at night: Right now, someone is sitting in traffic, perhaps on the M25, perhaps on their daily commute to work, and their lungs are 15 years older than they think.

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise measurements in particle physics.

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

Though the responses of the rich variety of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) reflect the totality of visual processing in the retina and provide the sole conduit for those processed responses to the ...

That observation encapsulates why chronic disease management as we practise it today is reactive rather than predictive. We're data-starved. And in the absence of data, we wait for symptoms. By which ...