In China, a particular species of edible mushroom causes hundreds of cases of hallucinations annually, as well as some delirium, dizziness, and mania. The hallucinations tend to be of tiny “elves” ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

Scientists are exploring a new way to harness the medical promise of psychedelic compounds without the mind-bending side effects. Researchers created modified versions of psilocin — the active form of ...

A slew of biosensors recorded surprising changes in her brain and body that suggest sensory deprivation can reveal more about “the world within you.” ...

Today's AI tools are strange beasts. On the one hand, they have truly remarkable capabilities. You can ask Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini about quantum mechanics or the ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of consciousness, according to the theory.

A new chatbot outperforms doctoral researchers at literature reviews, and could end up being the secret weapon science has been waiting for, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi PhD students have it tough. No ...

Yet academics are now routinely using tools such as ChatGPT to assist them in their research in much the same way they might ...

LeCun in 2018. Image via Wiki Commons. Just a few years ago, Yann LeCun appeared to be the right man at exactly the right place. LeCun, who famously pioneered the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) ...

Axiomatic AI Funding drives the company’s mission to deliver verifiable engineering intelligence through physics-based.

AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.