- Scientists have discovered a gigantic ring-shaped structure made of galaxies that challenges our understanding of the universe.
- The growing link between microbes, mood, and mental health.
- Related: You are legion, for you are many – parasites and microbes that control the mind.
- Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons? Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
- Psychedelic mushrooms existed tens of millions of years before humans, largest-ever study reveals.
- Breathing their way to an altered state: as psychedelics move from the underground to mainstream, clinicians aspiring to work in the field are inducing altered states with breathing.
- Massive 4,000-year-old ‘walled oasis’ discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed tombs containing mummy masks and a ‘god of silence’ statue at Saqqara.
- Conspiracy theorists have a field day as NASA delays return to the Moon.
- NASA backs a wild plan to ‘swarm’ Proxima Centauri with thousands of tiny probes.
- Are you hypnotizable? Why some of us are more susceptible to hypnotism than others.
- New analysis unlocks the hidden meaning of 15,000-year-old rock art in Australia.
- Cells across the body talk to each other about aging.
- Image(s) of the Day: The winners of the close-up photographer of the year.
Quote of the Day:
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
Carl Sagan
