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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 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.
An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.
Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
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.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
The secret to alleviating chronic back pain may be to treat psychological issues like anxiety and repressed emotions.
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.