Anton Vierietin/Getty Images Decades of citizen science are finally translating into clinical trials for psychedelic pain treatments. Here’s another strange and under-studied prospect of psychedelics: a world without severe chronic pain. For Court Wing, a former martial artist and CrossFit trainer, the most surprising thing about participating in a 2020 clinical trial at NYU for psilocybin and major depressive disorder wasn’t that his depression — which had resisted treatment for... Read more ›
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A teacher and students in a public classroom in Salmon School District in Idaho. | Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the “separate but equal” schools for racial minorities were... Read more ›
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Police arrest a pro-Palestinian activists at the City College of New York on April 30. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Protecting radical dissent requires tolerating right-wing speech. Social justice advocates spent much of the past decade fighting to constrict the bounds of permissible debate on college campuses. Such activists saw an inescapable tension between the ideal of free expression and the well-being of marginalized groups, both on campus and off. By... Read more ›
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Due to the affects of Canadian wildfires, it was a hazy morning in the Twin Cities on Thursday, June 29, 2023. | Deb Pastner/Star Tribune/Getty Images Wildfire smoke can be hazardous, but there’s a lot you can do to protect yourself. Several US states are again experiencing an influx of wildfire smoke as Canada’s summer fire season gets underway. Due to the scale of the wildfires and natural weather patterns,... Read more ›
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The recent geomagnetic storm allowed auroras to be visible across a much wider area, reaching into places like California. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Why we’ve been seeing such dramatic displays in our night skies. The stunning green and purple auroras that sparkled in the night across the continental United States this week are the latest entry in a rambunctious year for space weather. Forecasters expect more shimmering skies... Read more ›
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Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images To quote Elon Musk, “Gamestonk!!” A roaring kitty, a legion of Redditors, and failing companies that are suddenly, inexplicably highly valued are making it feel like 2021 all over again. GameStop was one of the first meme stocks — stocks that go viral among retail investors, usually for reasons outside the inherent value of their businesses — and now the craze seems to have reignited... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden arrives to speak at the SK Siltron CSS facility in Bay City, Michigan, on November 29, 2022. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Sun Belt is a disaster, but the Great Lakes states offer some hope of beating Trump. If the 2024 presidential election were held today, it seems likely that Donald Trump would win the presidency. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll suggests as... Read more ›
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New... Read more ›
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A BYD Seagull hatchback at the Shanghai auto show in 2023. | VCG/VCG via Getty Images Biden is acting like he hates the Chinese more than he likes the climate. You can’t buy the Seagull in the US. But I bet you wish you could. A small hatchback around the size of a Mini Cooper, the Seagull is a fast-charging electric car and claims a range of up to 250... Read more ›
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An approaching tornado on May 20, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. | Vincent Deligny/AFP/Getty Images Tornado season is changing. That could have major consequences. Tornado season is here again, with twisters striking in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Florida over the past few weeks. But while severe storms in spring are nothing new, there have been subtle changes in tornado patterns in recent years that portend a more dangerous future for communities across... Read more ›
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Sabrina Carpenter performs at Coachella 2024, which is now referred to as “that’s that her Coachella.” | Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella Who’s that her espresso? I must tell you that I have been Ratatouille’d. Except instead of a rodent making me cook gourmet meals, it’s a blonde 4’11” pop star named Sabrina Carpenter controlling my motor functions to make me repeat a phrase that doesn’t even make sense: “That’s... Read more ›
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An LGBTQ+ flag flies over Union United Methodist Church in the South End of Boston on January 5, 2020. | Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images A separation of church and church. Last week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC) delegates from around the world sat down to vote on whether or not to reverse a longstanding ban on the ordination of LGBTQ clergy. The decision would also determine whether... Read more ›
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Jessica Craig for Vox It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle. The worst bird flu outbreak in US history continues with strange new developments. Bird flu is now infecting cows, the FDA found viral genetic material in milk, and a second human was recently infected. H5N1 — the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza circulating — currently poses little threat to people as spillover from... Read more ›
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Children being read a story at Washington-Beech Community Day Care Center in Roslindale, Massachusetts. | Photo by Steve Liss/Getty Images We don’t need apocalyptic economic predictions to advocate for better family policy. “The writing is on the wall right now, in big, bold letters: the child care crisis is only going to get worse unless we take action — and soon!” said Democratic Sen. Patty Murray in November, following the... Read more ›
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Anti-gerrymandering protesters outside of the Supreme Court’s building. | Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post via Getty Images Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana's illegal racial gerrymander. Three different federal courts are fighting among themselves over who gets to draw Louisiana’s congressional maps. In June 2022, Chief Judge Shelly Dick, an Obama appointee to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, ruled that the state’s maps were an... Read more ›
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A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a GameStop store in the Herald Square area of New York City on November 27, 2020. | Gabriela Bhaskar/Bloomberg/Getty Images How a bunch of Redditors made GameStop’s stock soar, much to the chagrin of the hedge funds attempting to short it. Editor’s note, May 13, 2024, 2:35 pm ET: On May 12, 2024, Keith Gill, a.k.a. Roaring Kitty, returned to social media,... Read more ›
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine Arslanian arrive for a state dinner in honor of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2023. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair bought by the Egyptian government? Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is on trial for corruption — again. The trial for Menendez kicked off Monday, as... Read more ›
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Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation as part of Mass General’s historic pig kidney transplant surgery on March 16, 2024. | Massachusetts General Hospital We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too? No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on you’re a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone... Read more ›
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A periodical cicada in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in the spring of 2021. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Billions of these bugs are about to erupt from the Earth — and they rule. Right now, something magical is underway across vast stretches of the eastern US: The soil is beginning to erupt with trillions of periodical cicadas that have been growing underground for either 13 or 17 years, waiting for... Read more ›
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Justice Samuel Alito. | Alex Wong/Getty Images This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight. Former President Donald Trump’s four years in the White House were, in many ways, a revolution interrupted. They transformed the federal judiciary and led to the fall of Roe v. Wade, the end of many gun laws, and a sweeping transfer of power... Read more ›
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