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Much of the evidence documenting the earliest use of psilocybin in mushrooms for medicinal purposes by the ancient Mayans and Aztecs was destroyed by Spanish missionaries in the 1500s. However, that ...

Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich ...

AI-generated data is known as synthetic data. Such data can be used for amazing purposes. I explore a study at Stanford ...

Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

Miracles by definition defy science. But a new research effort attempts to understand what our experiences with them do to ...