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A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
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Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]
A man holding a transparent rectangular object up to his eyes, reminiscent of the analytical gaze of Robert and Frank Oppenheimer.
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
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An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.
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One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.
A rat is floating in front of a DNA screen, exhibiting an autistic behavior.
The study is a solid step toward developing gene therapies against neurodevelopmental disorders.
An illustration of a non-human main character, a fox, with birds on a branch.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
The world set free by Rachel Wells, inspired by Oppenheimer.
Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.
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Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
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You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
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Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
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The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
synthetic biology
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
A silhouetted figure with outstretched arms appears in bright, radiant light against a blue sky, evoking an ethereal effect that invites reflection on arguments against God.
“The very best arguments against God have been formulated by believers.”
John Templeton Foundation
Here's your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.
A luge athlete at the Olympics.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
genesis machine
The book "The Genesis Machine" outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
cosmic beauty
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
chronic back pain
The secret to alleviating chronic back pain may be to treat psychological issues like anxiety and repressed emotions.
Galaxies can die if their star-making stuff is lost. But now it can find its way back.
These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms' attributes.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses small molecules to alter RNA. Researchers have now used those molecules to alleviate a genetic form of blindness.
While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.
New research shows that neurons in autistic brains begin to developmentally diverge in early prenatal stages.
CERN’s bold new proposal has physicists confronting the biggest question of all: is building a new collider worth it? If you want to discover anything novel about the natural, physical […]
A 2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison study was the first of it's kind to show structural differences in the psychopathic brain.