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Ketamine may help change drinking habits by promoting neuroplasticity. But questions linger over the treatment's ethics and safety. ...read more

The most important COVID-19 lessons are shoring up our collective defenses and priming the medical world for the next rogue pathogen. ...read more

Humans and their activities hijacked Earth. Scientists investigate when the takeover began. ...read more

The nature of space weather hasn’t changed much. But society has, and understanding and predicting space weather is more important than ever. ...read more

It’s not just the pandemic. And the news is not all doom and gloom, either. ...read more

The study of déjà vu is now legit science, though researchers still don’t know what exactly causes it. ...read more

Biologist Jack Longino has spent most of his career hunting for ants in the rainforests of Central America. But this serendipitous discovery happened much closer to home. ...read more