Tornadoes are complex storm systems with complicated recipes that lead to their destruction. As such, they are ripe for blockbuster movies. This week, Twisters, the not-quite a sequel to the 1996 classic film, will release nationwide, inviting viewers back into the lives of the tornado storm chasers.

But a lot has happened in the past 28 years since the original movie aired, not just in film but in science. The way we study, predict, and react to tornadoes has evolved greatly in the last three decades.

Ahead of the release of Twisters, Inverse spoke with Harold Brooks, senior research scientist at NOAA’s National Superstorms Laboratory, to better understand some of the violent phenomena laid out in the movie’s trailer and our evolving relationship with them.

Scientists are pulling back the curtain on the mysterious mechanism behind magic mushrooms’ therapeutic effects. Tripping on psilocybin — the psychedelic compound found in shrooms — triggers widespread changes in the brain, some of which can last for weeks, according to new human research.

During a trip, neuron networks involved in intra-brain communication, memory, sense of space, time, and self become “desynchronized” in a swirl of abnormal activity, as shown in the study published July 17 in the journal Nature. Further, the level of changes in these neuronal systems corresponds with the intensity of a psychedelic experience, and though most of the brain returns to baseline within hours, some small changes persist for three weeks, per the research.