With cannabis now legal in much of the US, the focus is shifting from the ethics of using the drug to the health implications ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the rarest animals in the world: the 'Asian unicorn', which hasn't been seen ...

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Psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are gaining increasing attention in ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

The levels of caffeine in your blood could affect the amount of body fat you carry, a factor that in turn could determine your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

Scientists at Harvard University are proposing a fundamental change in the way we consider psychedelics and their therapeutic ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

Ohenhen has been analyzing subsidence rates in the US for the past year, and in a new study he and his team show that urban ...

The answer to the question 'how much sleep do I need each night?' depends on a variety of factors, and we just found a new ...

Earth's surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet's ...