Magic mushrooms help cancer patients cope with fear and depression

Magic mushrooms, once associated mostly with Phish concerts, may lead to better end-of-life care for cancer patients. One dose of the activ...

United Launch Alliance unveils website that lets you price out a rocket ‘like building a car’

This morning, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno unveiled a new website that allows satellite makers to figure out what it will really c...

Hottest Carmen Calle Stairway Dolls

Petite cutie Carmen Calle was a pleasant surprise this month. With her beautiful figure, she brought something new to the table. In this new...

FDA approves large-scale trials of ecstasy to treat PTSD

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of MDMA in large-scale clinical trials, The New York Times reports, amid emerg...

Google Earth’s Timelapse update illustrates 30 years of climate change

The team behind Google Earth released an update today to the timelapse feature of its satellite imagery app, and it’s a great way to see th...

This Antarctic glacier is cracking from the inside out — and that’s bad news for all of us

A massive glacier at the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is cracking from the inside out at accelerating speed. That’s alarming becaus...

Trump names former NASA aide and Science Committee staff member to work on NASA’s transition

President-elect Trump has named one of the members of his NASA transition team — and it’s someone who will find the space agency a familiar...

Designer bacteria build carbon-silicon materials for the first time

Scientists have genetically engineered bacteria to make a protein that squishes silicon and carbon together long enough for them to stick t...

Governor orders emergency evacuation of Standing Rock camp citing harsh weather

The governor of North Dakota, Jack Dalrymple (R), has ordered protesters at the site of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to evacuate the...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to skim Saturn’s rings

After 12 years of touring the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to enter a new orbit — one that will take the probe up clos...

TIM the robot inspects the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider so you don’t have to

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider holds the title as the world’s largest particle accelerator, boasting an underground circular tunnel that’s 17...

Melt your holiday stress with these adorable animal live cams

Family holidays can be stressful: you have to sit through hours of never-ending meals that run high on alcohol and carbohydrates, all the w...

Dutch scientists use color-changing graphene bubbles to create ‘mechanical pixels’

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have discovered what could one day be a new type of display technology: ...

Europe’s Mars lander probably crashed because of a problem with its navigation system

The European Space Agency is still trying to figure out why its ExoMars Schiaparelli lander crashed on the surface of Mars last month, and ...

Apollo software engineer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Obama awarded his last Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest US honor given to a civilian — in a packed ceremony on Tuesday...

To keep the cranberry industry in its birthplace, a farm turns to drones, data, and automation

Keith Mann faces the same problem each year: frost. The icy condensation is detrimental to his crop in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, the bir...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused widespread land erosion in Louisiana

Marnie Winter remembers seeing the oil spread through the waters of Barataria Bay in southeastern Louisiana. It was 2010, just a few weeks ...

How your brain tricks you into believing you’re the reasonable one

Few people saw Donald Trump’s victory coming, including Donald Trump. There are easy culprits to blame for the surprise win (skewed polls a...

Alphabet’s DeepMind aims to quiet critics with new deal to access UK medical data

DeepMind, the British AI firm owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has signed a new five-year deal to use data collected by the UK’s ...

Did Trump just change his mind on climate change? Who knows

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to reverse his feelings about climate change this afternoon during a sit-down meeting with journalists ...

These products claim to contain aloe vera — they don’t

Skin gels said to contain aloe vera at Walmart, Target, and CVS were found to have no evidence of the plant, according to a Bloomberg News ...

Heidi Romanova Zen Beauty

The freckled Eastern European beauty Heidi Romanova is ready for a new round of sexiness. For her, nothing can compare to curling up in bed ...

Young blood transfusions are probably not the best way to reverse aging

Sorry, Peter Thiel, young blood may not be the key to reversing aging. A study from the same team that tantalized us with promises of youth...