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Sunlight-powered sustained flight of an ultralight micro aerial vehicle

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A psychedelic state arises from desynchronized brain activity

Nature, Published online: 17 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02154-6 After a person takes the psychedelic compound psilocybin, some of their brain networks

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Split intein-mediated protein trans-splicing to express large dystrophins

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Your brain on shrooms — how psilocybin resets neural networks

Taking psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, temporarily resets entire networks of neurons in the brain that are

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Three-year delay for Indian census frustrates researchers

A census worker records details from women and children in Hyderabad, India during the last census in 2011.Credit: Mahesh Kumar

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The last universal common ancestor lived around 4.2 billion years ago

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how plants sense and respond to gravity

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Freezer holding world’s biggest ancient-ice archive to get ‘future-proofed’

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5 ways nature supports human health

Editor’s note: This week at the UN climate summit (COP26), Conservation International launched “Hear me while you can” — a

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Meet an organic food startup with Indigenous roots

Editor’s note: Around the world, innovative businesses are helping to solve some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.