You’ve seen them in Mario, it’s been referenced in Alice in Wonderland and various Cheech and Chong skits, and most recently, a plot device in Midsommar, but are magic mushrooms actually real? One type of psychoactive mushroom called Amanita Muscaria is as real as shiitakes and chanterelles, albeit with a lot more going on than

We’ve all noticed our canine companions doing this from time to time: you let them out into the yard, and within seconds, they’re munching on some grass like they’re a grazing cow. Folk wisdom tells us that this behavior is an animal’s way of ‘healing’ itself, like a sort-of canine version of Goop. While it

We are all made from star dust. No, literally: 99% of the material in the universe is made of helium and hydrogen, two of the most common ingredients in stars. And while it might seem like most of this collection of star dust is observable in planets, stars, cities, your first love, etc., this isn’t

Nietzche once cautioned against staring into an abyss for too long, because eventually, the abyss stares right back. That’s what astronomers from NASA must have felt like when they finally glimpsed the magnetic fields that were theorized to tangle around a black hole. The “black image”, as it’s being called, was taken by the Event

The term ‘room temperature’ is a funny thing: it’s supposed to be a universal standard of temperature that represents an object’s ‘normal’ temp. You see it in terms like ‘room temperature water’ or ‘room temperature butter’, and for the most part, it usually a good idea of how warm or cool a thing has to

It has been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm and brought everything to a standstill. But while communities worldwide were seemingly finding their way in the dark, the same cannot be said for scientists who were hard at work to develop a cure. There was a time when

What started as a simple infection from coronavirus bats has quickly become a zeitgeist-changing pandemic the likes of which haven’t been witnessed in over a century. In 2021, however, the coronavirus pandemic has finally started to slow down (but not stop, mind you) thanks to the mass rollout of vaccines across the world, many people

In a bid to aid the government in its mass testing efforts, CVS Health recently announced that they’ll be offering Covid-19 antibody testing in their MinuteClinic locations across the nation. The CVS Covid testing offer allows people to identify whether they have been infected with Covid-19, with results coming out within 15 minutes of administering