(Photo courtesy of Yana Iskayeva via Getty Images) DENVER — Psilocybin, the key psychoactive component of magic mushrooms, may ease depression for at least five years after a single use, according to a new study. The study, presented June 18…
Scientists are planning to darken the satellites' bodies so they reflect less light into the night sky, helping to preserve our view of space. (Image credit: Anton Petrus via Getty Images) A satellite coated in one of the darkest materials…
The large Saharan dust plume began moving across the Atlantic Ocean on May 28. By June 4, the hazy cloud had reached the shores of Florida. (Photo credit: NOAA/CIRA) Satellites recently recorded a massive cloud of “Sahara dust” blowing out…
Orbits of the planets in the 14 Herculis system. (Image credit: Deion Desir/AMNH/OpenSpace) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached another major milestone by directly imaging a distant, cold planet in a solar system different from our own, astronomers…
A reactor at a dairy farm in Marshall, California. The reactor is capable of reducing methane emissions from farms by about 80%. (Image credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Dairy farms are significant emitters of potent greenhouse…
Using radio waves generated by high-energy processes outside our galaxy, astronomers have found a solution to the “missing baryon problem,” explaining all the ordinary matter in the universe. (Photo: Melissa Weiss/CfA) About half of all ordinary matter in the Universe…