Pocket Archive: Science, History & Discovery

International scientists have unlocked a new and exciting avenue to explore the world of dreams.

This paper assessed whether belief in conspiracy theories was associated with a particularly cognitive style (worldview). The sample comprised 223 volunteers...

The psychedelic state induced by LSD appears to weaken the association between anatomical brain structure and functional connectivity, according to new

Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages -- and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.

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Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals. Now researchers have discovered the first example of an animal domesticating another animal, with a fish species found to recruit shrimp to tend their algae farms.

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Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.

You're about to stumble into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.

This month in Uncovering the Past several new finds and research provide new details for understanding the practices of past cultures.

The holographic universe principle suggests that we're living in a simulated reality. Essentially, it claims our physical world is nothing more than a detailed illusion, and while this is unlikely, the idea does have some interesting science supporting it.

Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones)

Hallucinogens like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin (a compound derived from certain species of mushrooms) were being researched in medicine as therapeutic agents before their recreational popularity boomed in the 1960s. Unfortunately, that era gave them a negative connotation and since then the research

Study suggests women with long or irregular menstrual cycles face greater chance of premature death

Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.

What might Earth be like crowned with rings? Space and science- fiction illustrator Ron Miller created extraordinary images of how the sky might look if Earth possessed such rings.

We Are Not Against Civilization, Civilization is Against Us

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Researchers discovered traces of a malignant form of cancer in a fossilized bone from an unearthed dinosaur that roamed the Earth over 70 million years ago.

Four Canadians will soon become the first in the country to legally consume psilocybin since it was made illegal in 1974

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Celtic people

The term BlackIrish refers to people of Irish descent with various dark features such as Black hair, dark eyeballs, and tanned skin.Although most people in the modern-day Republic of Ireland can barely notice the difference among Caucasian Irish people based on their appearance

Classic Disney movies have held an important place in popular culture for the last century, but few know that these films have very profound meanings.

The ultimate archery trick. Proving that Hollywood archery is not historical.It is not possible to tell the whole story about archery in a 5 minute video.so ...