Like people in general, pregnant people use non-prescribed drugs for many reasons. Opioids and stimulants are increasingly popular, as well ...

France’s yellow vest movement has broad support but is without a leader, making it hard to negotiate with the government.

New research using severed cat tongues could change the way we brush our hair and clean rugs — big news for allergy sufferers.

When criminal hackers keep breaking into big company networks to grab consumer data, the reason comes down to dollars and nonsense.

2018 has been an incredible time for advances in psychedelic research, including psilocybin mushrooms, ketamine and more, not to mention a landmark year for MDMA and cannabis. Meanwhile, some research on a much lesser known psychedelic, 5-MeO-DMT, ha ...

Mushrooms contain many unexplored compounds that could help humanity.

The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on steroids. The latest hit-piece was published ...

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

A controversial study claimed legal drug use sites – like many cities want to open - don’t prevent overdoses. The publisher retracted the research citing human error. 

Salvia is best known as somewhat of a meme—the goofy, over-the-counter psychedelic prevalent in head shops, notorious for its uncomfortable, short-lived hallucinogenic trip. Pretty much harmless, but a way that many young psychonauts get their toes w ...

Half of humans still lack dedicated internet access. Connecting them is fraught with challenges.

The rise and complexity of new synthetic narcotics are stumping emergency rooms, which often can't even tell what drugs a patient is on.

If done right (wrong?) your soup will look as appetizing as this.

New Horizons is the first spacecraft in nearly three decades to observe what appears to be evidence of a hydrogen wall at the edge of the heliosphere.

It’s tempting to see each of the country’s creeping public disasters as an epidemic. But an epidemic would probably be a lot easier to solve.

Fentanyl is a big culprit, but there are also encouraging signs from states that have prioritized public health campaigns and addiction treatment.

Recent reports that smoking heroin (and an associated risk of brain damage) is increasing among young people aren't looking at the full picture.

The next era of spaceflight will be tiny.

A hyperfocus on the plight of hooneybees has left thousands of other species in the dark.

Under the influence of MDMA, both humans and octopuses get much more social.