Intuition is nothing magical. Much of our everyday knowledge is implicit or tacit. Let me give a personal example. As a teenager, I used to sit and do my homework with the window open in my room on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mom might chalk up her gut feelings to mother's intuition. But the science behind it isn't well understood. (Getty Images) ...

We've been running on a very narrow spectrum of human intelligence, and it's landed us in social and environmental crises. Our very survival now depends on reclaiming other, wiser parts of our minds.

Intuition, a profound aspect of human cognition, is often misunderstood. It’s the ability to understand something instinctively without needing conscious reasoning. That gut feeling guides us through ...

Do you make decisions using your intuition—or is it actually “misintuition”? Here’s what researchers are learning about how to make better choices. An illustrated view of the human nervous system, ...

Do you ever have a really strong gut feeling that something bad is about to happen, but then when you try to warn others about your foreboding sense of doom, they completely ignore you - and your ...