In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Illustration by BORIS SÉMÉNIAKO On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the ...

This week, we've heard from researchers trying to untangle the effects of the "trip" that often comes with psychedelics and ketamine from the ways... Here's why researchers are making new ...

A massive backlash against LSD eventually culminated in a 1970 Congressional law declaring it a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it officially has "no accepted medical use" in the U.S.

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD — without the trip. It's time ...

Chemists at the University of California, Davis did something that borders on the molecular equivalent of pulling off a magic trick. They moved two atoms within the intricate structure of LSD—a drug ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have developed a groundbreaking version of LSD that retains the drug's brain-healing benefits without the mind-altering effects. The team at the University of California, ...

In 1965, the American actor Peter Fonda met The Beatles while they were tripping on LSD and inadvertently wrote a masterpiece ...

The seeds of the LSD trip were planted a year earlier, in the summer of 1955. Aldous Huxley, recently widowed and struggling with his grief, came to stay with Matthew and Ellen. During those long ...