Chronic post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans is one of the most visible domestic consequences of America’s wars abroad. Many of the nation’s soldiers return home and find themselves unable to function in society anymore after their experiences on the...

The following first appeared in the MAPS Bulletin: Psychedelics have recently reemerged in mainstream culture, with novel scientific research and major media outlets making a strong case for changes in the prohibitive policies currently impeding further progress in the field...

25 February 2015 — This article has been updated to better reflect the limitations of the study. A new species of lichen has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, according to a recent paper published in The Bryologist. Researchers led by...

DMT, the world’s most potent psychedelic, may soon become one of the world’s most popular ones, too, according to new research data Thanks to the popularity of the DMT: The Spirit Molecule book and documentary and the Gaspar Noe film Enter the Void,...

What is the mark of an intelligent mind in our day and age?  When we think of intelligent people, we may have been conditioned to envision them in a library somewhere studying.  We associate intelligence with social reservation and...