science

The psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT seemed to induce similar patterns of brain activity in a lama – a revered spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism – as meditation, advancing our understanding of the drug’s neurological effects Source link

The psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT seemed to induce similar patterns of brain activity in a lama – a revered spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism – as meditation, advancing our understanding of the drug’s neurological effects Source link

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly Source link

The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand Source link

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication networks is opening up radical new ways to boost health Source link

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour was much more common than we first thought Source link

Gene-editing citrus fruits to make them less bitter could not only encourage more people to eat them, it might also help save the industry from a devastating plague   Source link

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is popular with transhumanists Source link

Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a distinct yawning “signature” Source link

In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, driving across a scorched landscape in a future version of Australia Source link