Recent research suggests that giving mice a compound found in magic mushrooms before chemotherapy can prevent the debilitating nerve damage that often accompanies cancer treatment. The findings indicate that psilocybin protects nerve fibers by keeping their cellular powerhouses moving and...

Seven ancient human fossils and a cache of tools and animal remains found in a cave in southwestern China are illuminating the looks and lifeways of the mysterious Denisovans, who were close cousins of the Neanderthals and coexisted—and interbred—with modern...

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed. The new study was published in Science Advances. 

Excavations at Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain have recovered more than 1,500 animal remains and stone tools from a Neanderthal occupation dated to about 46,000 years ago.