Vice
Viewpoint: Be wary of promises that psychedelic drugs will revolutionize mental health
Whether a psychoactive drug will bring about utopia or dystopia is a question not limited to fiction but rather increasingly ...
Biden Administration backs aerial glyphosate spraying to combat Colombia’s cocaine trade, drawing criticism from some drug policy experts
Biden’s administration celebrated Colombia’s decision to restart aerial eradication of coca in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Colombian ...
Why are left-handed people excluded from brain research?
About 10 percent of people prefer to use their left hand for everyday activities, like writing, a percentage that's remained ...
Congenital blindness appears to offer protection against schizophrenia. Researchers trying to figure out why.
No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. … This is especially surprising, since congenital blindness ...
Replacing the ‘magic mushroom’: Engineered bacteria more efficient at producing hallucinogenic compound psilocybin
Psilocybin mushrooms, popularly known as magic mushrooms, are famous as psychedelic purveyors of trippy epiphanies and cathartic giggle fits. But ...
Making the case for a sixth major mass extinction–the end-Guadalupian event
Life on Earth has diversified into countless forms over the course of billions of years, but it hasn’t always been ...
How did this bird evolve into existence again after disappearing 136,000 years ago?
The Aldabra white-throated rail, a flightless bird that lives on its namesake atoll in the Indian Ocean, doesn’t look like ...