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A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brai...

DNA analysis, 3D-printed skulls and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of Aquincum nearly 1,700 years ago.

NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.

Researchers found that specific brain circuits help decide which jobs bees perform as they age. When those circuits were switched off, older worker bees began caring for the queen again instead of carrying out their norm...

A new study reveals that fruit flies use spatial memory, rather than simple reflexes, to track odors.

A new study presents the world's first neuromorphic chip capable of matching the operational speed of the human brain.

B-cell depletion therapies in multiple sclerosis (MS) work in part by mobilizing protective B cells from the gut.

Hummingbird hawkmoths (Macroglossum stellatarum) exhibit an innate "handedness" when extending their proboscis to forage on flowers.

A new study demonstrates that combining bee venom with standard L-DOPA/carbidopa therapy improves motor and cognitive outcomes in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

Researchers discovered the primary structural gateway allowing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to clear metabolic waste from the brain.

Reliably generating controlled miniature rotations has long been a challenge: Chemical propulsion systems wear out, and methods that use electric or magnetic fields require complex setups. A team from KIT's Institute...

Researchers developed a novel therapeutic approach to combat glioblastoma, the deadliest primary brain cancer.

Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.

A new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments.

Researchers at Skoltech, together with a colleague from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working within the joint SIOM-Skoltech laboratory, have determined how to se...

Software that is free to use creates many opportunities - not all of which are good

Readers take issue with a former answer to this question, arguing for the different behaviour of wasps and flies - and for a more defined plan of escape than has previously been posited

Another expert reader explores this thorny topic, including reference to the behaviour of their own archerfish

Readers weigh in on this one, debating everything from the meaning of stale air to its heat capacity

While Europes heatwave makes us run for shade, the intriguing In Defense of Sunlight reveals sunlights health-giving effects - in moderation, says David Robson

Sublimation, in which a person can split into two when crossing an international border, is tip-top stuff. Don't miss it, says science-fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson

What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail: fewer big cubes or lots of small ones? And what is the smallest creature that needs to sleep, and what does this tell us about the nature of and need for sleep itself?