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How psychedelics affect the brain
New York Times, Published on 08/04/2026
» NEW YORK — As researchers have sought to demonstrate the therapeutic benefits of mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin “magic mushrooms,” many have struggled to explain exactly how these compounds work on the human brain.
Cuttlefish dazzle mates with light patterns invisible to humans
New York Times, Published on 27/01/2026
» NEW YORK - Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate. While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we do not have.
A vintage Kabul cinema finally falls to Taliban bulldozers
New York Times, Published on 24/12/2025
» KABUL — A movie theatre that bore witness to Afghanistan’s modern history — from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers — has been razed to make way for a shopping mall.
Drunk raccoon passes out in US liquor store
New York Times, Published on 04/12/2025
» A raccoon entered a liquor store the other day and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom.
Seal milk is the cream of the molecular crop
New York Times, Published on 26/11/2025
» NEW YORK — Collecting milk from a nursing seal is no easy task.
Can TikTok help young people take a break from screens?
New York Times, Published on 24/05/2025
» NEW YORK — How do you stop doomscrolling? By setting a time limit? Putting your phone in a different room? Deleting the application altogether?
Fossil’s 3 eyes are not its most surprising feature
New York Times, Published on 14/05/2025
» NEW YORK - More than 500 million years ago a three-eyed predator chased prey through seas of the Cambrian Period. Once it caught its quarry, a pair of spine-covered grasping claws and a circular mouth covered in teeth would finish the job.
Foie gras that skips the force-feeding is developed by physicists
New York Times, Published on 26/03/2025
» BOSTON — Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras for a quarter century. The luxurious delicacy is a pâté or mousse made from the rich, fattened livers of ducks or geese.
'Make Greenland great again'? No, thank you, Greenlanders say.
New York Times, Published on 09/01/2025
» NEW YORK — Christian Ulloriaq Jeppesen remembers how this all started.
Animal celebs who surprise, sooth and scream at us
New York Times, Published on 26/12/2024
» Every year has its breakout stars, and 2024 yielded a bumper crop: Glen Powell, Chappell Roan, Pommel Horse Guy.