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High in the Canadian Arctic on Baffin Island, beneath 10 meters of water and many more of mud, sits a refrigerated archive of Earth’s past life.
Quantum physicist Deep Prasad previously hinted that he had an encounter with extraterrestrials which is why he became so interested in UFOs and aliens.
An extended bout of warm wet weather 232 million years ago may have profoundly altered life on Earth.
Our universe is governed by four fundamental forces. Now, however, new research suggests that there's a fifth force, a discovery that could upend much of modern physics.
A recent study conducted in Germany has just discovered that multiple new compounds are directly linked to ayahuasca-psychedelic brew traditionally prepared by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
Ancient statuette of a female figure since the late Paleolithic (40-12 thousand years BC) was found in the area Renascor Amiens (Department of Picardy in Northern France).
In this first interview of our series exploring the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, we talk to Johns Hopkins Associate Professor Gul Dölen, who has spent years exploring the effects of MDMA on the mammalian (and more recently, cephalopod) brain.
Shortly after OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or consistently discharging particles into space.
Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on Friday that it has discovered a number of huge archaeological stone blocks near Giza pyramids west of the capital Cairo.
A new study examines how early animals endured the worst ice age in Earth's history, and why it might have set the stage for our existence.
Plants are usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been recorded making airborne sounds when stressed.
The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 said farewell to the asteroid the probe spent a year and a half studying, and scientists have now announced some intriguing trends they noticed in the spacecraft's photos.
A ‘magic mushroom’ nasal spray has been designed to make microdosing easier for people trying to treat their PTSD or depression.
New Zealand has announced it will be holding a voter referendum next year on the legalisation of cannabis.
None of the mainstream theories which attempt to account for these great extinctions are entirely satisfactory.
When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.
Of all the galaxies observed by astronomers, barely any are as strange or geometrically unique as Hoag's Object.
Of all the galaxies observed by astronomers, barely any are as strange or geometrically unique as Hoag's Object.
For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted evidence of an exoplanet circling a superdense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf, a new study reports.
A spacecraft buzzing past the Sun has caught the best-ever glimpse of the birthplace of the solar wind — the stream of energized particles that floods outwards from the star.
When astronomers discovered the first exoplanet around a normal star 2 decades ago, there was joy—and bewilderment.
Stars and comets make unlikely dance partners. Their gravitational partnership is one that astronomers have long suspected but have never seen — until now.
A non-profit medical research centre, the Usona Institute, has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of psilocybin for major depressive disorder (MDD).
The jawbone of a little-known form of ancient human has been discovered in western China. Scientists say these people lived as long as 150,000 years ago, and they were part of a group called Denisovans.
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.
Ancient Australia’s super-sized animals, the megafauna, became extinct about 42,000 years ago, but the role of humans in their demise has been debated for decades.
A young pup that spent 18,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost looks remarkably lifelike and pettable — for a freeze-dried mummy.
An ancient and mysterious tomb has been shown from space in an image taken with NASA's Terra satellite.
Europe has confirmed its participation in humanity's first full-on planetary-defense demo.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons is calling for amateur astronomers to help a multinational space mission which could ultimately help save Earth.
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth.
Research which suggests that structures previously thought to be fossils may, in fact, be mineral deposits could save future Mars missions valuable time and resources.
Modern technology is illuminating tattoos on mummified, ancient Egyptians that until now had gone unnoticed.
A team of British scientists has arrived in the Antarctic to try to find the continent's "missing meteorites".
4.6 billion years ago, a swirling cloud of rock and rubble coalesced into the planet we now call home. For millions of years after, our planet was bombarded by rocky bits from the distant reaches of our solar system.
As of this week, the International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 21 years, and the astronauts on board have been taking breathtaking photos for almost as long.
Frigid air and wet ground did little to deter the 4,500 people who gathered before dawn on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay this Thursday for the annual Unthanksgiving Day.
The formidable space rock is an Apollo-type asteroid known as 2019 WQ3, zooming past us at a staggering speed of nearly 40,000 mph.
The ancestors of Inuits in North America brought their own dogs with them when they migrated from Alaska and Siberia, introducing sledging to the Arctic region.
The European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for the next three years.
The skeleton provides a rare glimpse into an uprising around 2,200 years ago.
Humankind is now extinguishing animal and plant species so swiftly that evolution cannot keep up, according to new research.
Archaeologists have made a breakthrough discovery in central Anatolia from an ancient civilization that cremated and hid its dead.
The movement to decriminalize psychedelics has spread so rapidly this year that it can be hard to keep track.
Mary Calkins, May Sinclair, and Hilda Oakeley. They each defended “idealism” – the idea that consciousness composes, or somehow pervades, the universe we live in.
A long-standing enigma in paleoanthropology is the demise of Neanderthals about 40,000 years ago.
There are many incredible pyramids across North America that are often overlooked by mainstream history. There is a deep history associated with these sites, which show incredible design and architecture.
As Homo sapiens first ventured beyond Africa, they encountered other hominins already living in Europe and Asia, and those encounters left their mark on our modern genomes.
Taking DMT is like putting your brain through a jet engine and getting your consciousness blown out the other side. You’re just kind of everywhere, surrounded by colours, fractals & aliens that look a bit like elves.
There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity's telescopes can't see them.
Throughout history there have been theories that have either driven us forward or become historical oddities. It is all part of our stumbling quest to feel our way through this morass of mysteries....
Some 33 states have legalised medical cannabis, while 11 states and Washington DC have also legalised recreational use. But cannabis use remains illegal at the federal level.
Eight ancient earthworks sites dating to the Hopewell era comprise the USA's first Ohio-centric bid for UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
The FDA is helping to speed up the process of researching and approving psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance in magic mushrooms, to treat major depressive disorder.
The formation of galaxies is a complex dance between matter and energy, occurring on a stage of cosmic proportions and spanning billions of years.
So far, NASA has classified more than 21,000 asteroids and more than 100 comets as near-Earth objects. Of that group, about 2,000 are considered "potentially hazardous".
A team of scientists from South Africa has discovered evidence partially supporting a hypothesis that Earth was struck by a meteorite or asteroid 12 800 years ago.
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one.
An international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites -- supporting the hypothesis that chemical reactions in asteroids can make some of life's ingredients.
Ochre, one of Earth's oldest naturally occurring materials, was used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art. Despite its broad use throughout human history, little research exists on the paint itself.
A Congressional committee approved a landmark bill on Wednesday that would decriminalize and tax marijuana on the federal level?.
If you ever looked at the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere, you've noticed that gleaming object that the rest of the heavens appears to move around. What you're seeing is Polaris - the North Star.
A little more than 15 years ago, the world was introduced to a new, pint-sized member of the hominin family that shook the science of human origins.
Aged approximately 45,000 years, this might be the world’s oldest animal statuette. The sensational discovery was made three months ago in the Altai Mountains.
Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune.
Astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”.
If you stick your head out the window and listen carefully, you will hear the shrieks, screams and howls of the cannabis community.
A huge ancient ritual site dating back over 6,800 years has been discovered in Poland. It is believed to have been used by neolithic people for between 200 and 250 years.
Data from ESA's Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie "song" that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.
Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary relationship between an ancient giant primate and orangutan. This allows the researchers to reconstruct evolutionary processes way beyond the known limits.
Scientists say they‘ve deciphered features of the skull and some other details of a mysterious, extinct cousin of Neanderthals by analyzing its DNA.
The Leonid meteor shower is one of the most famous of the annual meteor displays. The meteors are located within the Sickle, the backward-question-mark star pattern within the constellation of Leo.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire—the largest civilisations between 800 and 600 BCE centred in northern Iraq and extending to Egypt—may have collapsed due to a 60-year, climate-related megadrought.
Thailand is ramping up medical marijuana legalization efforts that will soon allow all Thais to cultivate six cannabis plants in their homes and sell their harvest to the government, to turn into medical marijuana.
A key congressional committee plans to hold a historic vote on a bill to end the federal prohibition of marijuana next week, two sources with knowledge of the soon-to-be-announced action said.
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.
DMT is one of the main psychoactive constituents in ayahuasca. In the latest study researchers compare its powerful effects to ‘dreaming while awake’.
Acid used to be about turning on, tuning in and dropping out. How times have changed. In recent years, high-achieving technology executive has begun seeing LSD as a route up the career ladder.
Archaeological evidence points to human arrival in America less than 15,000 years ago but the discovery a prehistoric mastodon is prompting some scientists to push back the time frame by 100,000 years.
Japanese researchers discovered 143 stunning geoglyphs of humans, birds, camels and other animals etched into the desert in southern Peru around the mysterious Nazca Lines.
It measured 10Km across. It hit at a speed of 20Km/second. Everything within one thousand kilometres would have been incinerated. This was the asteroid which impacted with Earth 66 million years ago.
A massive asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza is on course for a close flyby of Earth next week, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have announced.
Under new articles in the country’s antiquities protection law, climbing monuments and smuggling antiquities out of the country will result in high fines and jail sentences.
A legal expert has warned British tourists and employees that if they smoke marijuana in the US, even in states where it has been legalised, they risk being barred from the country for life.
Moundbuilders Country Club asked the Ohio Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling allowing the Ohio History Connection to reclaim the 134-acre Octagon Mounds from Moundbuilders Country Club.
Modern neuroscience believes that NDE is the result of disturbed body multisensory integration during life-threatening events. However, spiritualists claim that NDE is an authentic sign of life after death.
Death is a universal human experience, yet it remains one of life's great mysteries. Traditionally viewed as an absolute irreversible endpoint, studies have shown brain cells to be resilient after a person dies.
Death is a universal human experience, yet it remains one of life's great mysteries. Traditionally viewed as an absolute irreversible endpoint, studies have shown brain cells to be resilient after the person dies.
Not every bang that happens in space is a Big Bang. In fact, the cosmos crackles and pops all the time. Then there's the massive thermonuclear explosion that NASA scientists detected last August.
Footprint evidence of human-megafauna interactions is extremely rare. Researchers from Cornell used a method called ground-penetrating radar to “see” potential footprints.
A Japanese spacecraft left a distant asteroid on Wednesday after successfully completing its mission to gather soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system.
Tiny fragments of an asteroid located more than 200 million miles from Earth could hold the key to discovering the origins of the world’s oceans.
November is fireball season. This month, keep an eye out for two sure-fire annual meteor showers, and—just maybe—a wild card outburst from the obscure Alpha Monocerotids worth watching out for.
A geologic change might have plunged lush landscapes into arid zones, killing off an array of creatures—and it might happen again one day.
A Denisovan finger fossil is uncovering mysteries about this wiped out Stone Age race.
That the government will allow a few to get cannabidiol medicine is good news. That is all that can be said. Once more a decision emerges that reveals the evils of a politicised, centralised, deadened health service.
Is it possible that plants have feelings too and if so what proof is there? With the controversial field of plant neurobiology igniting opinions, Jade Norton leafs you wondering what the future may hold for plant cognitive research.
So, were Neanderthals us? Leaving the chin and beetling brow out of it, would we notice a Neanderthal in the room? And if one was there, could he paint a picture?
An asteroid orbiting the sun has surprised astronomers by turning out to be roughly spherical in shape – possibly qualifying it to be the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system.
The next full moon of 2019 — nicknamed the “beaver moon” — will reach its peak Tuesday morning when the annual Taurid meteor shower will be at its best.