Is This Club Drug the New Prozac?
Ketamine might be the next big depression treatment—but how best to use it remains unknown.
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A Microguide to Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs
How much is a microdose, exactly? Here’s our semi-scientific guide to taking acid, mushrooms, DMT, and more. Hint: If you feel the trees breathing, you’re doing it wrong.
Blanca Myers
Lots of Doctors Recommend Weed Without Understanding It
Half of oncologists who recommended marijuana did so without feeling they had sufficient knowledge of the drug.
Matt Simon
Inside the Mind of the Countess of Psychedelic Science
If LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.
Matt Simon
Scientists Want You to Give Them Money to Study Psychedelics
A $2 million crowdfunding campaign will finance an ambitious series of studies—designed under the watchful eye of the FDA—into psychedelics as treatment.
Matt Simon
Ever Had a Really Long Acid Trip? Now Science Knows Why
A new paper finally reveals the secret of the LSD Trip Gone Far Too Long: The drug binds to receptors in your brain in a fascinating way.
Matt Simon
Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
Emily Mullin
OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
Emily Mullin
Sony Wants You to Forget About Discs With Its Gorgeous Transparent Controllers
Sony has new, spiffy see-through controllers and covers for its PlayStation 5 that let you see the hardware guts inside.
Boone Ashworth
Magnesium May Not Reach Your Brain, Despite Supplement Label Promises
Some of the many variants sold today promise to penetrate our gray matter, but biology isn’t in the habit of respecting marketing declarations.
Adam Obr
A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age
After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average.
Emily Mullin
Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Emily Mullin
Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Will Knight