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One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.

Near-death experiences are a scientific mystery. We have credible reports of people describing out-of-body experiences, life reviews, and other unusual phenomena—but we still don't know how they happe...

Jorge A Delgado-Ron; Reappraising the claims of evolutionary continuity between thanatosis and near-death experiences, Brain Communications, , fcag368, htt

Nature - Controversy around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes problem highlights how researchers could be inadvertently sharing — and absorbing— ideas through chatbots.

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

What the time between lives reveals about rebirth syndrome

How does Science test supernatural claims?

Ce que cinq décennies de recherche nous ont appris sur la façon de faire face à la mort.

The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity betwee...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Fluoxetine’s efficacy estimates in pediatric depression trials have declined to the range of placebo equivalence. We investigated whether changes in t…

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

IntroductionClassical near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to states of disconnected consciousness characterised by a range of features occurring in the conte...

Did Odysseus have an NDE? Was Homer's conception of Hades inspired by the phenomenon?

Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

Agents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators; what is the causal structure of a medium before replicators appear, and evolution take...

In psychological science, researchers often pay particular attention to the distinction between within- and between-persons relationships in longitudinal data a...

New trade deals with Ecuador and the UAE raise hard questions about the government’s international priorities