Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

Trouble in Mind is an anthropological marvel. From the levels of anxious hierarchy in white dynamics to the declaration that it’s scary to say anything (read: anything racist) these days, the play has ...

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and surgeons at Penn State have created a new class of biomaterial that can better ...

Discover the neural similarities of seals to particularly vocal birds and even humans, suggesting the foundations of speech may not be uniquely human after all.

The show is co-curated by the University of Glasgow’s Professor Sarah Cook and Bildmuseet Director Katarina Pierre. Their ...

Song Hu and his collaborators have developed super-resolution functional photoacoustic microscopy (SR-fPAM), which allows researchers to image blood ...

It is a Group VIII transition metal on the periodic table and also one of the rarest metals found in nature. As one of the six major members of the platinum-group metal family, osmium has no ...

What does it actually take to teach a humanoid robot to act human? Inside Tesla’s robotics operation, the answer looks less like science fiction than repetitive labor. Workers in a glass-walled lab ...

Someone asked “Girls who have been guilted into going out with a "nice guy", how did it go?” and people shared their stories.

Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in a cave, revealing the oldest known example, dating back nearly 300 million ...

You’ve seen people sliding into the tube of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine on your favorite medical drama, or maybe you’ve been inside one yourself, waiting as the noisy scanner makes ...

When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons ...