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A Single Dose of Psychedelic Ibogaine Might Help People With Traumatic Brain Injuries
The psychedelic drug ibogaine may be able to give brain injury sufferers some much-needed help. A new, small study found that military veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury experienced a significant improvement in their symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD following treatment with ibogaine and magnesium. The findings merit larger clinical trials of…
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This ‘Self-Eating’ Rocket Consumes Its Own Body for Fuel
A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere to power its journey. A group of researchers from the University of Glasgow has built the first unsupported autophage rocket engine, which uses waste heat from combustion to melt its plastic fuselage and use it as…
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Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed Star
The Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn’t have a nearby star that could cause such an aurora. Aurorae on Earth happens when particles from the…
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A Possible Explanation Arises for the Lunar Mission Failure
The Peregrine lander has less than a day to live, and the company behind the spacecraft may have figured out why its mission was doomed shortly after its launch. Astrobotic is blaming a faulty valve for Peregrine’s critical fuel loss, which made its soft landing on the Moon unachievable, the Pittsburgh-based company shared in its…