BOCHUM, Germany — Your brain is easily fooled, and that might be a good thing for pain relief. International researchers have ...

Like humans, octopuses can fall for the rubber hand illusion and believe that a fake arm is theirs. This suggests they have a sense of their own body, just as we do. The rubber hand illusion is a ...

In my last article, I introduced the concept of brain illusions whereby people can “adopt” a fake hand as their own, and I mentioned how people with eating disorders are much more susceptible to this ...

Researchers conducted an experiment in which test subjects felt like a rubber hand was part of their own body. As a result, their own hand became less sensitive to pain. If a person hides their own ...

HILL SETS THE STAGE WITH AN ELEGANT COCKTAIL RECEPTION, BUT SOON ITS DOORS WILL OPEN TO A WORLD WHERE THE IMPOSSIBLE ISN’T JUST POSSIBLE. IT’S INEVITABLE. YOU’RE PRESENTING SOMETHING THAT VIOLATES THE ...