Despite my apathy for illusion, a wand has somehow magicked its way into our home and made my car keys disappear ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...

Well, science and baseball. Physicists build models to explain how the world works. It might be an equation, like the ideal ...

A newly described African species in the magic mushroom family confirms its evolutionary origin. Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is found growing on cattle dung in the grasslands of southern Africa and ...

Easy visual magic tricks work because they take advantage of how your brain processes attention, movement, timing, and expectation. What looks impossible is often just clever misdirection, simple ...

Immunology education is lacking in grade-school STEM education. This in turn negatively impacts health literacy, as knowledge of basic immunological concepts is an essential component of making ...

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Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later A single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can induce ...

When you can’t fall asleep because you’re too stressed, counting sheep might not be enough. Instead, experts suggest a simple mental trick that can quiet even the busiest thoughts. They know because ...