Today, people have a general knowledge on the effects of taking in recreational drugs. Well, in the days when society had no clue, experiments were carried out by curious scientists. We encountered the list of the top five recreational drugs experiment. Check out the list in the full article.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that having a brain biopsy when you're ill is risky. Sometimes, though, the procedure of drilling through the skull to examine it in hopes of finding is necessary. Doctors want to change that, and they're closing in on an alternative with good old MRI technology, plus some genetics in action. Hit the jump for the full story.

Some people who suffer from schizophrenia don't realize they suffer from it until an episode occurs and they find themselves in the hospital. Early diagnosis of this mental illness could prevent that first episode to happen, but there is no concrete way to detect it. Now researchers may have found a way to detect the illness when they noticed that siblings of those suffering from schizophrenia display a similar shape abnormality in the brain. More in the full article.

It looks like you may not have to head off to outer space in order to travel through space and time; Allan Greenleaf and his mathematician colleagues have claimed that it may be possible to create "wormholes" right here on the planet.

According to Mr. Greenleaf, the "wormholes" would basically be devices with internal tunnels that are invisible to to detection by electromagnetic waves.

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A new study conducted by Dr. Aad van der Lugt, an associate professor in radiology at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, and several colleagues has revealed that brain scan abnormalities may not be all that uncommon. Dr. van der Lugt et al's findings were based on the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans conducted on two thousand healthy Dutch adults with an average age of 63.

Though it wasn't exactly clear how alarming the MRI findings were, most of the tumors or aneurysms hadn't caused symptoms in the participants of Dr. van der Lugt's study, though some could be potentially life-threatening.

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Scientists in Germany have finally figured out a way to read people's minds.

PhysOrg.com reports that a team from Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience is definitely breaking new psychic ground with their research. The team, led by Dr. John-Dylan Haynes, used MRI machines to track and identify brain activity in order to predict whether their subjects would add or subtract two given numbers.

Before you go all bonkers and start hoarding tinfoil to make into "protective hats," please note that this is only possible through the use of an MRI machine, and it's not very accurate. In fact, the 71 percent accuracy rate is only about 20 percent more successful than random selection.

"It's really weird," said Tanja Steinbach, a 21-year-old Leipzig student who participated in the experiment. "But since I know they're only able to do this if they have certain machines, I'm not worried that everybody else on the street can read my mind."

Still, the research has managed to stir up some interest in the scientific community. "Haynes' experiment strikes at the heart of how good we will get at predicting behaviors," said Dr. Todd Braver, an associate professor in the department of psychology at Washington University. "The barriers that we assumed existed in reading our minds keep getting breached."

Haynes, meanwhile, envisions more benign uses (i.e., not in any way similar to "Minority Report") for the research. For example, he says it could contribute to the development of machines already in existence that respond to brain signals and allow the paralyzed to change TV channels, surf the Internet, and operate small robotic devices.