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Priestesses of a mysterious cult in ancient Greece and Rome may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new study suggests. However, some experts say that, although the study shows that is…

I still remember the movie night when I first watched Good Will Hunting with my mom. Matt Damon played a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While mopping the hallways, he walked past a blackboard with an advanced math problem…

On a wooded hilltop in eastern Ohio, a massive sandstone boulder bears more than a hundred ancient tracks whose origins remain uncertain. Known as the Barnesville Petroglyph, the site has drawn archaeologists, local residents, and even…

Han Zeng stood in a quarry in Hunan province and looked at mudstone that had lain undisturbed for more than half a billion years. The paleontologist from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology was standing on a piece of ground…

Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons. Human air pollution, a new study from Max-Planck Institute researchers suggests, is wreaking havoc on ant society…

This month could be the best time to spot the northern lights for nearly a decade, as the combination of the “equinox effect” and supercharged solar activity will make auroras more likely. However, precisely where and when they will appear is…

The use of the word “quantum” has become rather hackneyed. There are quantum computers, quantum sensors, and even quantum refrigerators; the list is endless. I mean, what’s next—quantum washing machines?

If all the…

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