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Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

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What humans might look like 1,000 years from now.

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Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

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When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...