As Oregon has become the first US state to make psilocybin -- the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms -- legal for mental health treatment in supervised settings, a new study finds it works to address depression symptoms

New research indicates that women with higher levels of social anxiety display heightened performance in a test of cognitive empath

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

Major islands have lost nearly a quarter of their beaches in the last century. The culprit? Seawalls and other barriers erected by wealthy homeowners.

Dark personality traits predict individual responses to global crises, according to results of a study recently published in Personality and Individual Differences. Though studies have shown certain personality traits to predict behavior during the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, the impact of dark personality traits on affect and cognition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been determined.

Your parents’ good intentions might have undermined your confidence – but you can do something about it.

Excitement as DNA barcoding technique leads to unmasking of new species tempered with fear that some are already at risk of extinction

Alcohol has really bad health consequences, and the US doesn’t take that seriously enough. While America may have taken smoking more seriously, it continues to kill nearly half a million people every year. Alcohol-related deaths number almost 100,000 annually.

A team led by UCSF’s Richard Wang, surveyed the scientific community’s understanding of e-cigarettes and found that, in the form of mass-marketed consumer products, they do not lead smokers to quit. 

Despite mounting evidence that we eat, drink and breathe microplastics it still isn't clear if they enter our bodies and cause harm, but in 2021 we should get some answers

In a study published in September, researchers from Ohio State University found that out of more than two dozen athletes from the university who tested positive for COVID-19, 30% had cellular heart damage and 15% showed signs of heart inflammation caused by a condition known as myocarditis.

Growing up amid wildfires and polluted air, California's young are seeing firsthand the effects of climate change. The risk they face is not only physical, but also psychological and emotional.

Evidence suggests that there are real benefits of talking to yourself in the third person—in your head, not out loud.

Scientists in the UK have just recruited the first participants in the world to be part of a new long-acting antibody study.

It is the first-time ever that scientists have been able to attribute a cause to the condition, known as “freshwater skin disease”, since it first appeared 15 years ago in bottlenose dolphins

Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes termed...

A dog laid to rest with care some 7,000 years ago, the now-fossilized bones adorned with a necklace of elk teeth. Near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the bodies of dogs were given proper burials by the humans who loved them.

Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS – known as forever chemicals – are in the blood of virtually every person on the planet.

Rates of comorbid major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder are three times higher in people who have cannabis use disorder, a meta-analysis in the Journal of Affective Disorders has found.

Juvenile ravens performed just as well as chimps and orangutans on a battery of intelligence tests—except for spatial skills. Christopher Intagliata reports.