THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, returns Friday ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person's work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

SINGAPORE – A little blue card, with his name and a few numbers that say who he is and where he lives. To Mr Ricqo Rafiezuwan, a 25-year-old whom The Straits Times featured in September in an article ...

What happens when you think and how you act don't align? We tell the story of a woman diagnosed with what's known as "alien hand syndrome." NPR's Invisibilia, the show about human behavior, has ...

What would happen if your brain was split in two? In this recent Invisibilia podcast and show, host Hanna Rosin meets a woman named Karen with "alien hand syndrome." After surgery to treat her ...

As I read through Michael Gazzaniga’s Human over the break, I was transported back to 1996 when I discovered—to my own satisfaction at least—what exactly the dividing line is between humans and other ...

In one of Stanley Kubrick’s weirdest movies (even by Kubrick standards), “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)“, one of the characters played by Peter Sellers is ...

Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone. In the ...

Imagine being attacked by one of your own hands, which repeatedly tries to slap and punch you. Or you go into a shop and when you try to turn right, one of your legs decides it wants to go left, ...