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New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.

An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.

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It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.

Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.

A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.

Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.

Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.

You could become plant food.

In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.

Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.

The first human trial of base editing delivered strong results along with some safety concerns.

This Yale researcher is creating an experimental therapy for cystic fibrosis made from viruses – and it’s working.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.

More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.

It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?

Off-the-shelf consumer technology is helping people pursue their interests — and advancing science at the same time.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

Fluphenazine, once used to treat schizophrenia, is capable of blocking a compound connected to chronic pain.

The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.

A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.

Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.