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Man born blind has synaesthesia that makes numbers feel textured

19 April 2022

A man born without sight has a rare form of synaesthesia in which he feels numbers, days of the week and months as different textures

Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

4 March 2020

We have finally found time cells in the human brain – they help explain how we recall when events happened, and they could be a target for Alzheimer’s therapies

What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

29 January 2020

What our senses allow us to experience may not reflect what actually exists. It may be a creation of our own consciousness, or a computer simulation designed by superintelligent beings

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

31 July 2019

We assume our senses see reality as it is - but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

Andy Clark: Why reality is a hallucination

20 November 2018

Conscious experience is little more than an elaborate fantasy created by your brain. Philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explains why

New Call of Duty trials no-helmet immersion - using superblack paint

12 October 2018

More often associated with artistic experiments and the innards of satellites, light-absorbing Vantablack paint may soon be heading to an arcade near you