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 ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what your brain is actually doing right now? For decades, standard science has told us a ...

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 ...

With the rise of brain-interface technology and artificial intelligence that can imitate brain functions, understanding the nature of consciousness and how it interacts with reality is not just an age ...

DESCARTES might have been onto something with “I think therefore I am”, but surely “I think therefore you are” is going a bit far? Not for some of the brightest minds of 20th-century physics as they ...

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 ...

For centuries, the question of what consciousness is—where it comes from, and what it does—was left to philosophers and mystics. But now, scientists across biology, neuroscience, and physics are ...

Gowtham Chilakapati is a Director at Humana. He is an expert in enterprise data and AI systems with a focus on real-time analytics. As a technologist specializing in retrieval-augmented generation ...