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Neuroscientists just rewrote our understanding of psychedelics with a groundbreaking receptor-mapping study  PsyPost Source link

The finish was instinctive, a split-second moment of skill, but then there is all that came before. There’s the movement, where he sticks on Virgil van Dijk before drawing away as the Dutchman turns his back. There’s the sixth sense, as he reads Jacob Murphy’s intention to nod the ball back across goal. And then there’s the belief, to shoot …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Cosmologists think that in the first few moments of the Big Bang, the universe grew by multiple orders of magnitude. | Credit: Daniel Rocal – PHOTOGRAPHY/Getty Images Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those …

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal those ripples, but if they are discovered, they will change our understanding of the entire universe. In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general …

MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work confirmed a longstanding prediction about the nature of the universe, passed away on Aug. 25. He was 92. Weiss conceived of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) for detecting ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, and was later a leader of …

Researchers fed 7.9 million speeches into AI—and what they found upends our understanding of language  PsyPost Source link

Thursday, August 21, 2025 NIH scientists and collaborators reveal the brain preserves its representation of lost limb in clinical study. During MRI scans, participants moved their hand (pre-amputation) or phantom hand (post-amputation), as well as their lips (both before and after). Brain maps of the hand (red) and lips (blue) are shown for two pre-amputation scans (pre1, pre2) and multiple …

Members of the FBI and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department conduct a traffic stop near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Amid President Trump’s ongoing feud with the local leaders of the nation’s capital, both sides have pointed to crime statistics to make their case on how safe …

This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe. The findings shake up our understanding of the origin of stars in the early universe and “calls for a reassessment of the helium chemistry in the early universe,” …

Eight different vitamins make up the B complex, and they all play crucial roles in the body, such as producing energy, keeping our nervous system healthy, and supporting cell development. If eight sounds like a lot to keep track of, it might help to know that most research focuses on five in particular: thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), folate …