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Calgary clinic pushing for better access to psychedelic therapy

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WARNING: This article contains discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation.  For all his adult life, Evann Gentry has suffered from depression. But his condition was exacerbated to a dangerous level in 2008, when he says he was assaulted and hazed while serving in the military. Suffering debilitating panic attacks and outbursts of anger, the depression was … Read more

Dream Chaser is getting tested at NASA

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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, imaged at the Neil Armstrong Test Facility after being delivered just a few days ago. Credit: Sierra Space/Shay Saldana After a journey spanning almost two decades, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane, named Tenacity, is officially undergoing environmental testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility located at NASA’s … Read more

Astronomers detect new pulsar wind nebula and its associated pulsar

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Composite image of the Galactic plane region and Potoroo, with the red layer showing the ASKAP total intensity image at 1368 MHz, and the green and blue layers representing WISE infrared images at 12 µm and 22 µm respectively. Known Galactic SNRs are indicated by red circles (Green, 2019, 2022), while known Galactic HII regions … Read more

A chemically defined, xeno-free culture system for culturing and deriving monkey pluripotent stem cells in vitro

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Generation of a bioluminescent chimeric monkey. Credit: Protein & Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1093/procel/pwad049 Non-human primates (NHPs) have a high degree of similarity to humans compared to other animal models. These similarities manifest at the genetic, physiological, socio-behavioral, and central nervous system levels, making NHPs uniquely suitable for research into stem cell therapy and increasingly used … Read more

Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Antarctica is often imagined as the last untouched wilderness. Unfortunately, avian influenza (“bird flu”) is encroaching on the icy continent. The virus has already reached the sub-Antarctic islands between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America. It’s only a matter of time before it reaches the Antarctic continent. So far avian influenza … Read more

‘Maintain Asian forest diversity to avoid climate change impact,’ suggests new study

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Credit: Dr Rebecca Hamilton/The University of Sydney A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Rebecca Hamilton at the University of Sydney, has found that rather than dry savannah in South East Asia dominating during the Last Glacial Maximum more than 19,000 years ago, there was a mosaic of diverse closed and open forest types, … Read more

Pfizer to discontinue twice-daily version of weight loss pill

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Pfizer on Friday said it would stop developing the twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill after obese patients taking the drug lost significant weight but had trouble tolerating the drug in a mid-stage clinical study.  The drugmaker observed high rates of adverse side effects, which were mostly mild and gastrointestinal, among patients. A … Read more

Researchers develop ‘electronic soil’ that enhances crop growth

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Eleni Stavrinidou, associate professor, and supervisor of the study and Alexandra Sandéhn, Ph.D. student, one of the lead authors, connect the eSoil to a low power source for stimulating plant growth. Credit: Thor Balkhed Barley seedlings grow on average 50% more when their root system is stimulated electrically through a new cultivation substrate. In a … Read more

NASA asteroid sampling mission renamed OSIRIS-APEX for new journey

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These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded in March 2021 by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The asteroid was 10.6 million miles (17 million kilometers) away, and each pixel has a resolution of 127 feet (38.75 meters). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO … Read more

The ‘bank of mum and dad’ is increasingly helping fund the lives of young Australians

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Much has been made of the increasing presence of the “bank of mum and dad” in the lives of Australians. We know financial support from parents to adult children is increasingly used for entering the housing market. But our new research shows parents are also helping their young adult children in … Read more