The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

Lynn Farram and the congregation of Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool

Medicinal mushrooms are having a moment. Fungi experts Christopher and Katherine Parker dig into their favorite functional varieties and unearth the research that shows why these mushrooms matter

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Meanderings we couldn’t fit into the issue, but which seemed terribly important at the time...

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o