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For Some Veterans, Psychedelics Are a Last Hope—and a Dangerous Gamble

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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Marc Dervaes sat straight-backed in a circle of 10 men at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The glass window behind him looked out on a […]

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This Climate Concern Is Way Out There

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a mid-November evening, at precisely 7:12 p.m., a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Florida coast. It appeared to be a perfect launch. At an altitude of about 40 […]

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This Brutal Mosquito-Borne Disease May Have a Cure—But There’s a Catch

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.” Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include bone-deep, aching pain in the joints and behind the eyes. In severe cases, blood vessels begin to leak. And […]

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Scientists Find Polar Bear Genes Behave Differently According to Climate

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and […]

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Why Do We Trust ChatGPT?

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In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect “digital confessions.” At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 […]

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Why Do We Trust ChatGPT?

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In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect “digital confessions.” At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 […]

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It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie? 

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On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin begged her followers to step outside, sing together, and wait, at last, for the aliens.  Things hadn’t been going well for Martin, the leader of a small UFO-based religious movement usually known as the Seekers. She had previously told her followers that, […]

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This Invasive Disease-Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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This Invasive Disease Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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Florida Wildlife Officials Discover Second Case of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wildlife officials in Florida have discovered only the second case in the state of a deadly infection known colloquially as “zombie deer disease,” and are enforcing emergency measures to try to prevent a spread. The highly contagious chronic […]

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Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy

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This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, the astronomer Carl Sagan warned that the United States was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Science Under Siege: How […]

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It’s True: The Internet Skews the Reality of Women (and Men) in the Workforce

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In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]

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