New Jersey Performing Arts Center will welcome the children’s science podcast Brains On! for its live stage show Brains On! Live: Your Brain Is Magic!. Hosted by Molly Bloom, Marc Sanchez, and Sanden ...

The exact way that psilocybin, the hallucinogen chemical found in magic mushrooms, works on the brain is poorly understood. However, recent research suggests it can actually change the way brain ...

For depression, magic mushrooms may indeed be magic. Over the past decade, a slew of pioneering trials found that just one or two doses of psilocybin, the main component in magic mushrooms, rapidly ...

Brain scans suggest psilocybin, found naturally in 'magic' mushrooms, can 'rewire the brain', scientists say. This effect may underscore the drug's potential, alongside therapy, as an antidepressant, ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

By combining psilocybin with a modified rabies virus that tracks neural connections, they mapped how networks change after a single dose. Earlier research from the same laboratory showed that ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the map of a typical human brain, and this is the map of a brain on psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms. All those new ...

David Blaine. David Copperfield. Harry Houdini. These three magicians may be rank among the world's most famous, but there's someone else who belongs on this list: You. Even if you can't make things ...