Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

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 ...

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations. A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting a small amount and experiencing vivid ...

For decades, LSD has been associated with vivid hallucinations and counterculture movements. But now, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a way to tweak this powerful ...

Researchers have announced that they have designed a new compound that activates the 5-HT2A receptor, which is thought to be involved in anxiety and depression. Synthetic narcotics 'LSD' is known as a ...

LSD began with an accident — a chemist absorbed a tiny amount of a compound he barely understood. What followed was a journey that would reshape science, psychology, and global culture for decades.