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Legal MDMA therapy hits a speed bump

The FDA just rejected an application of psychedelic therapy for PTSD. But MDMA’s time may well come soon.

The drugs of the future are in the animals of the past

The genomes of extinct creatures like mammoths and giant sloths code for natural antibiotics we’ve never seen. So, now what?

Newsletter July 16, 2024: Hot Germ Summer, algorithms, and mammoth drugs

Newsletter June 18, 2024: A new way to think about Life (Plus, a surprise!)

A scientific case for an Earth alive

"Becoming Earth" author Ferris Jabr on his new book and how life emerged as an extension of the planet’s surface.

Inside a reporter's notebook: Pleistocene beasts

Read an unpublished diary entry from Ferris Jabr's trip to Russia's Pleistocene Park while writing Becoming Earth.