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Psychedelics Could Transform How We Sleep—Or If We Even Need It at All, New Theory Claims
Hallucinogens like DMT, psilocin, and LSD might rewrite the rules of sleep, blurring the line between dreams and reality.
The 5 Best Daypacks We Recommend to Comfortably Carry All Your Gear
For most day hikers, a frameless pack is a fine choice. Because it uses less material than an internal frame pack, it is ...
Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up.
Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...
A Woman Went for a Casual Walk—and Accidentally Discovered a One-in-a-Million Treasure
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
An Endangered Tortoise Just Became a First-Time Mom. She's 100 Years Old.
Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...
Decoding Animal Minds Could Reveal the Purpose of Consciousness, Scientists Say
Scientists say these are all markers of animal consciousness, a sign that animals, from Labrador retrievers to cuttlefish to ...
A Queen Bee Lives 20 Times Longer Than Her Workers. Scientists Want to Steal Her Secrets For Humanity.
Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less sugar than the honey tkhat workers eat. This is thought to be part of the reasons queens outlive worker bees. The gut bacteria of queen bees are ...
A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.
A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, ...
Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...
Consciousness Isn’t Just in Your Head—It May Be Altering Reality Itself, Scientists Say
The question of, “What is consciousness?” is no longer exclusively the realm of ancient philosophers and dorm-room debaters.