Europe has lost contact with one of its two Proba-3 spacecraft, after an anomaly caused the vehicle to lose orientation. The European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Proba-3 mission launched to Earth…
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Archaeologists reveal major hoard of Imperial Russian gold
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have revealed a remarkable hoard of gold coins uncovered in 2025 in the historic town of Torzhok, in…
Healing Without the Hallucinations: The Next Generation of Psilocybin Therapy
Summary: While psilocybin is hailed as a breakthrough for depression and anxiety, many patients remain wary of the intense “trips” associated with the drug. Now, researchers have engineered modified versions…
Archaeologists uncover evidence of Iron Age rituals at Germany’s Bruchhauser Steine
Archaeologists working at the Bruchhauser Steine hillfort in Germany’s Sauerland region have uncovered evidence that the dramatic rock formation served as a site for ritual practices more than 2,000 years…
How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability
A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced. This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big…
Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored
Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to…
Telehealth is widely used by older adults insured by Medicare, new research shows
Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29…
Understanding the evolution of individuality—Fruit flies may have an answer
As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny…
Board game that pre-dates chess discovered in ancient burial mound
Archaeologists working in southern Russia have identified the remains of an ancient board game believed to be a distant precursor to chess, shedding new light on cultural connections between Mesopotamia…
