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Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects ...

Sushmita Pathak is a freelance journalist based in Dehli, India. Her work broadly focuses on politics, culture, and science.

This year saw an extraordinary number of awe-inspiring images of objects in space, thanks in part to the James Webb Space Telescope. Here are the ones that dazzled us most and why they are important ...

Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests span visual perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology and the ...