Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that several psychedelic drugs – including psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and ayahuasca – produce a common pattern of brain activity despite their ...

A sweeping international analysis suggests psychedelics do not just alter perception, they reconfigure how major brain networks communicate, offering one of the clearest maps yet of their large-scale ...

Donald Trump's personal spiritual adviser has sparked backlash after comparing the billionaire president's life to that of Jesus Christ’s, during an Easter lunch event at the White House. Paula ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

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