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As psychedelics are integrated into mainstream medicine, experts weigh the benefits and costs of solo versus group therapy.

Harvard’s 3D-printed eardrum repair patch is ready for market

Why Do Vaccination Rates Plateau?

Bacteria Refuse to Die Even After 1,000 Days With No Food

All Hail Ganymede, King of the Moons

How a Grave Cleaner Uncovers the Past

Elon Musk unveils Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that uses vehicle AI

What will today’s data tell future historians?

Speaking in whistles

The hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages

Researchers solve 20-year-old paradox in solar physics

How can we take pictures of Earth-like exoplanets? Use the sun!

Rattlesnake Rattles Use Acoustic Trick To Fool Human Ears

The search for the sterile neutrino

Is Disneyland the great American artwork?

SARS Survivors Vaccinated Against Covid-19 May Have Super-Antibodies to Coronaviruses

Artist Imagines What Famous Historical Figures Would Look Like Today

It Rained at the Summit of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time Ever Recorded

How Florence Nightingale Saved Lives Through Her Data Visualisation

See some of the most intriguing photos from NASA’s Perseverance rover so far

Epic Iran: Ancient objects that reveal writing’s roots

The Past Will No Longer Help Us Navigate the Current Pandemic

The Next Big Challenge for Lunar Astronauts? Moon Dust

2D ‘Supersolid’ That Flows Without Friction Has Been Made For The First Time

The Bloody Valentine’s Day Massacre and a Nightclub Toilet

A biography of the pixel, the elementary particle of pictures

Why People Who Brush Still Get Cavities

Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris

How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits.

The Sopranos of Berlin: A Brutal Crime Family and a Billion Dollar Jewel Heist

The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

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Homo Longi: Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals As Our Closest Relatives Found in China

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Lab-grown mini brains develop basic eyes that can “see”

How the Humble Avocado Went from the Unwanted “Crocodile Pear” to America’s Favorite Superfood

Saving the Ozone Layer Also Helped Buy Us Time to Address Climate Change

The Incredible Brains of Cuttlefish Hold Memories That Never Seem to Fade

For a Brief, Shining Moment, These Bioluminescent Squid Are Sushi Stars

Sugar: here’s why some people experience negative side effects when they quit

Images From a Changing Iceland

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The Milky Way has a ‘broken’ arm that could reveal its galactic history

Rare embryo from dinosaur age was laid by human-size turtle

Counter-spinning turbine design draws double the energy from ocean waves

Rewilding death: The plan to restore the necrobiome

The perils of a trip to Mars: Low gravitation and high radiation

Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion

What nematodes laying eggs tells us about how cocaine affects the brain

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Where’s the edge of the observable Universe? And what’s beyond?

Human remains in tomb are best-preserved ever found in Pompeii

The ancient symbol that was hijacked by evil

The Beautiful Impossibility of the World’s Largest Pearl