Soon, the psychedelic drug will be available to more people. Researchers say missteps in rolling out Measure 109 could hinder research...

Compared to the general public, New York City firefighters and emergency medical workers were 15 times more likely to be infected with the new coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic, researchers reported on Thursday in ERJ Open Research. Compared to the firefighters, the EMTs and paramedics were more likely to contract the virus and to develop severe COVID-19. Everyone in the study...

The discovery of a 9,000-year-old female skeleton buried with what archaeologists call a "big-game hunting kit" in the Andes highlands of Peru has challenged one of the most widely held tenets about ancient hunter gatherers -- that males hunted and females gathered.Randy Haas, an archaeologist at the University of California, Davis, and a group of colleagues, concluded in a paper...

A crowded mountain can make silverbacks more violent, scientists say. Mountain gorillas spend most of their time sleeping, chomping leaves and wild celery stalks, and grooming each other’s fur with long, dexterous fingers. Researchers who analyzed 50 years of demographic and behavioral data from Rwanda found that as the number of gorilla family groups living in a habitat increased, so did the...

As humans, we have a much harder time predicting the future than remembering the past, leading to a phenomenon known as the "end of history"...

As of Election Day 2020, 1 in 3 Americans live in a state where adults can legally buy cannabis. Here's what we know about the...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to trace a so-called fast radio burst to a specific...

The discovery of a five-eyed shrimp-like creature that lived about 520 million years ago may end a long-running debate about the evolution of Earth's most common...

A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe? Scientists have known about these energetic pulses — called fast radio bursts — for about 13 years and have seen them coming from outside our galaxy, which makes it harder to trace them back to what's causing them. Then this April, a rare but...

Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays sometimes include a burst of...

THIS WINTER THE PANDEMIC IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THE DEPRESSION EXPERIENCED BY MANY PEOPLE WITH THE SYNDROME KNOWN AS SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER, OR SAD.We hadn't yet switched back to standard time, with its shortened hours of afternoon daylight, when I began to notice a lack of enthusiasm for activities that I usually enjoy during the darker, colder days of fall and winter. Indoor projects...

The first case of COVID-19 wasn't confirmed until March — but plasma samples from February suggest the virus may have circulated before...

The latest surge in COVID-19 cases across Europe have prompted leaders to reintroduce measures like those seen in the...

If the world's biggest iceberg grounds at South Georgia island, it could devastate local...