Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

A new study has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their communication networks to transmit ...

A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters provides new insights into the Martian dichotomy, a striking geological difference between Mars' northern and southern hemispheres. Using data ...