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Detroit joins growing list of cities decriminalizing psychedelics
Detroit has joined the growing number of cities and states that have decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi, more colloquially known ...
A cure for COVID? Scientists now think it’s possible, and it may come soon
Doctors have some medications they can use to treat the effects of COVID-19, but developing a drug that targets the ...
Video: ‘The palette of modern therapeutics’ — mRNA and the COVID vaccines explained
Rather than tinkering with the virus or its parts, [mRNA vaccine technology] harnesses the “beauty of our biology” to deliver ...
Video: Humans have lost many genes over the course of our evolution. Here’s how they helped define us
Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and we’ve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is ...
Video: The saga of how humans developed the ability to talk
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s ...
Video: Mite vs mite—Farmers airdrop pest-munching predators into strawberry fields to protect their crops
Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices ...
Is one genetic mutation responsible for human endurance?
Studies suggest that a mutation caused humans to lose function of the CMAH gene two to three million years ago—around ...
