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A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...
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If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...
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The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...