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For the first time, researchers have shown that drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms produce 'higher' level of consciousness

However, it's not exactly better, and it's probably not the kind of expanded consciousness you'd want.

Newly found exoplanet might be the best place yet to hunt for alien life

Such discoveries keep piling up. We can only rejoice.

Retreating glacier causes big Canadian river to vanish in four days

Researchers have described the first case of 'river piracy' -- a river disappearing after an intense glacial melt.

Homing pigeons can improve and pass on knowledge across generations, the only non-primate to do so

Homing pigeon have their own form of cumulative culture passing down information about routes do their peers.

Though considered impossible, Harvard physicists have built a time crystal

This new state of matter could be key to building quantum computers.

Thermal diode could allow computers to one day function on heat alone

No more fans for us!

LHCb finds a deviation from the Standard Model which may hint at a new particle

The little brother of LHC might be on to something big!

Our brains get hit by epiphany before they let us in on it too, researchers find

The eyes give it away.

Seven Raspberry Pi Internet of Things projects you can make on your own at home

Making your own router, security cam system or weather station is very cheap and easy with Raspberry Pi. Here's how!

CRISPR can be used to test for Zika and cancer quickly and cheaply

One test can cost 0.61 cents to make.

Zebra-like horse found to coexist with ancient humans in Russia

They were thought to have gone extinct way before.

Well-kept vacant gardens can help reduce crime, new study finds

A new study conducted in Flint, Michigan, US, has shown that maintaining the gardens of vacant properties and keeping them clean can help reduce crime.

Shamanic drug ayahuasca rapidly improves severe depression symptoms, first randomised clinical trial finds

Amazonian shamans have been making the brew for ages. Now, science confirms for the first time its therapeutic potential against depression.

This app makes you smarter while you're waiting for the WiFi to connect

It's called micro learning, and it might change your life.

Physicists coax superfluid to have 'negative mass'

The matter flows against the pushing force.

Period-syncing has been debunked in the biggest study yet

The wide-held belief that women that spend a lot of time together start having their periods start at the same time is disproved again.

Animal cruelty-free testing methods will be tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

A step in the right direction.

NASA snaps picture of huge crack in Greenland ice shelf

An unexpected crack has emerged across a giant Greenland glacier, raising concerns that a big chunk of the glacier might splinter off into the ocean.

How Gardening can benefit your health

It's good for you and it's good for the environment, so why not give it a try?

Fractal-etched graphene electrode boosts solar energy supercapacitor storage by 3,000%

This could be a game changer.

Mathematics explains how lizards get their patterns

Math is all around us.

Shrimp with hot-pink claw and sonic fish-killing snap named after Pink Floyd

The name is suiting because of its loud sound, pink claw, and because the scientists behind the description love Pink Floyd.

New Guinea Highland Dog feared extinct found again

Luckily, they seem to be doing well.

15-million-year-old pine cones still have the moves

Three ancient pine cones were found almost completely intact in coal mines.

Michigan cut vaccine waivers by 35% by exploiting parents' laziness

Bet the legislators are still subtly high-fiving over this.

Experiment mimicked Earth's early atmosphere hit by extraterrestrial impact. It produced all four RNA bases

A classic science experiment was revisited to explore the origin of life.

What country has the tallest men

The future's tallest.

Preventing clinical anxiety may come down to physical differences in brain lobes

It's all in the brain.

For the first time astronomers image the dark matter web that connects galaxies

This map shows how a dark matter bridge connects galaxies together.

Some two billion people depend on imported food

Whenever population pressure increases, more food is imported.

A more limited range of color vision might help predators see through camouflage, research finds

They spy with their little eye...something tasty!

Oldest dinosaur relative looked nothing like scientists imagined

The 245-million-year-old fossils overturns the established view that early dino relatives were the size of a chicken and feeble.

This solar-powered device can squeeze water out of thin air -- 3 liters a day

You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can squeeze water from thin air -- even in the driest areas of the world.

All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn's icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents

Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.

NASA to make tantalizing announcement about water worlds later today

NASA is doing the old 'announcement of an announcement,' and we're absolutely falling for it.

U.S. waterways pack a slew of chemical compounds, from pesticides to pharmaceuticals

Hundreds of chemical compounds were identified but the real tally could be in the order of thousands.

Fingerprint authentication for smartphones isn't secure at all. Some of the enrolled prints are like '1234' PIN codes

Fingerprint auth isn't as secure as most people think.

More evidence adds up to support the intelligence of elephants

Researchers have shown that Asian elephants are even smarter than we thought.

No ant left behind: warrior ants carry injured soldiers home

Spoiler alert: they don't do it because they care.

California's dry spell may be officially over but some parts of the state will need decades for precipitation to recover

One step forward, two steps back.

Forecasting local weather with cellphone signals

Soon, you could get a weather forecast for your neighbourhood, or even street.

Farmer ants unknowingly domesticated their fungi crops by sequestering them in dry environments

Accidental domestication still counts, right?

Why shoelaces untie themselves: you have good old physics to thank

The answer to this deceptively simple question could help scientists better understand structures like DNA.

Venus does tectonics without any plates -- and it's possible young Earth did it too

Goddesses... always have to stand out, don't they?

Thousand-year-old penguin poop points to devastating colony collapse at the hand of volcanic eruptions

Gentoo penguins are prolific poopers, much to the delight of some scientists.

The US alone spends $16 billion on plastic surgery -- we're dealing with 300,000 breast implants a year

You probably don't need that breast implant but if you want it... make sure you work with a certified doctor.

Jupiter has a massive cold spot as well

Jupiter's Great Red spot has a new sister. Well... it's not new, but we just found it.

The Martian atmosphere might be cruel and inhospitable but at least it has metal ions

Studying Mars' ionosphere and its metal ions might explain how the planet lost most of its atmosphere (and liquid water).

Security experts crack smartphone PIN using only the motion sensor data. By the third try, the algorithm was 94 percent accurate

The algorithm exploited the motion and orientation data recorded by a smartphone's accelerometer or gyroscope.

Sleeping around makes it hard to speciate by mixing genes, paper shows

I don't even want to speciate.