A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Researchers identified three distinct brain “biotypes” of ADHD, each with its own chemical signature—offering new clues about why treatment can feel like trial and error.

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers have found new data to support the "drunken monkey" hypothesis; the idea that human attraction to alcohol may be ...

Jean Milne is one of 44 patients to receive a letter from NHS Tayside saying sorry for not properly alerting them to the risks when they were given a new metal jaw prosthetic made by the health board.

If you've ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but ...

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through radiation treatment later ...

Even if you appear “healthy,” excess fat in certain spots on your body could be silently speeding up cognitive decline. Excess fat, especially around organs, increases risk for disease and cognitive ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Lundbeck Foundation. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health ...