8. Culture & Curiosity!

Healthy adults were tracked before, during and after high doses of psilocybin and methylphenidate to assess how psychedelics can change human brain networks, and psilocybin was found to massively disrupt functional connectivity in cortex and subcortex with some changes persisting for weeks.

Harvard University is one of the most revered institutions in the world, so when its academics publish new studies, people take note. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that a team of scientists at Harvard and Montana Technological University, have just produced a paper suggesting an advanced alien civilisation may be “walking among us” here on ...

Scientists spent ages mocking panpsychism. Now, some are warming to the idea that plants, cells, and even atoms are conscious.

Faster-than-light warp drives are theoretically possible to build, and if aliens are using them, we should be able to detect the gravitational waves produced when one goes wrong

Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined.

Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

Nature - Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

Harvard University is one of the most revered institutions in the world, so when its academics publish new studies, people take note. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that a team of scientists at Harvard and Montana Technological University, have just produced a paper suggesting an advanced alien civilisation may be “walking among us” here on ...

npj Aging - Investigating nutrient biomarkers of healthy brain aging: a multimodal brain imaging study

According to feline researchers, cats often get maligned as aloof and even spiteful, when many of them are quite social and eager to interact.

The GQ staffers of 1995 called. They want their list back.

Researchers discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction.

Uncover the best liquid eyeliners for effortless lines and lasting wear. My top pick after rigorous testing is from the drugstore.

Weather from Microsoft Start has been named as the most accurate global forecast provider by the ForecastWatch assessment company for 2023. This is the second year in a row for this honor.

If we can learn to speak their language, what should we say?

The scientific case against owning a cat.

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?

We are told "the old ones are the best ones" – and some of the oldest jokes in history are still in use today. It’s worth going back a few thousand years to find out why.

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns

A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers, but what remains incontestable is social media’s impact on the music we hear most.

A Tribe Called Quest's 'Gerogie Porgie' displays homophobia at its most hateful. But does their first album in 18 years show they've grown?