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According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.

What's Your Sign

There's a very important lesson here.

People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

DMT is said to produce strangely similar trips for many who take it — and a new version of the drug may help people stay there longer.

Long, Strange Trip

Do androids dream of mechanical elves? 

Startup Trying to Test Whether People on DMT Experience a Shared Alien Universe

It's no secret that social media use can change adult brain anatomy — but a new study suggests that it may affect adolescent brains differently.

Brainiacs

This study is one of the first of its kind, and it's pretty fascinating. 

Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media

New research suggests that stranded dolphins may be tragically suffering from Alzheimer's disease — a possible boon to the "sick leader" theory.

Washed Ashore

These poor creatures.

Scientists Have an Extremely Grim Theory About Stranded Dolphins

One guy took more than 40,000 ecstasty pills over the course of nine years and lived to tell the tale — and his story has become a cautionary party legend.

No More Molly

"He was unable to move for several weeks and had tunnel vision."

Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms

Brain-controlled wheelchairs using a noninvasive a non-invasive interface allowed several paralyzed patients to control wheelchairs with up to 98% accuracy.

Think It, Do It

"If we train people sufficiently long, they can achieve a certain level of control of a sophisticated device like these brain-controlled wheelchairs."

Paralyzed People Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Electric Wheelchairs

While shooting his new TV show, Chris Hemsworth underwent genetic testing that revealed he was carrying two copies of a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's.

Health Revelation

"The reality of it sinks in. Your own mortality."

Chris Hemsworth Reveals Grim Genetic Test Results, Will Take Break From Acting

researchers claim in a study published last month in Cells Report Physical Sciences that they've developed a way to charge the implants solely through breathing movements — potentially making them completely self-sufficient.

Ecstatic Power

Brain power? How about breathing power.

Scientists Build Brain Implant Powered Completely by User's Breathing

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin claim to have found a way to control how high mice can get on cocaine.

White Mice

This could be a game changer for treating addiction.

Scientists Found a Way to Control How High Mice Got on Cocaine

A psychological researcher may be close to "Eternal Sunshining" memories of romantic betrayals using a surprising medication regimen.

Eternal Sunshine

Remember that movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?

Scientists Say They Can Damage Memories of Being Cheated On

Researchers claim to have built a "decoder" algorithm that can reconstruct what somebody is thinking just by monitoring their brain activity using MRI.

Read My Mind

This is seriously impressive.

Scientists Say They've Figured Out a Way to Read Thoughts Using an MRI Machine

In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.

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