Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Whether you call it a vibe shift or a paradigm shift, physicists must be ready to challenge their fundamental understanding ...

The view of the horizon on a disc-shaped world would depend on the unlikely physics by which you believe it works, explains one reader ...

If this sounds like a review of a new game, it is, sort of. LANDER 23 is a real-world stealth game from London-based company ...

Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected ...

Black holes that turn matter into energy could explain dark energy and answer two other cosmic questions. Now, the challenge ...

An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halves of their body sequentially to ensure a safe landing ...

Physicists are scrambling to understand why dark energy is weakening. In a surprising twist, we must now reconsider the ...