The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).

Tiny air pollutants may cause changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer’s disease.

Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years talk by Perry E. Metzger for EmacsConf 2019

Lee et al. IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment.

I’m a big fan of interactive tool support for programming. I often use features like “go to definition”, “find symbol”, compile error underlining, etc. Also, earlier this year, I launched Muon, a new low-level programming language. As no tooling existed beyond…

The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again

Prolific startup accelerator Y Combinator has abandoned plans to establish a branch of the program in China. The company cites a general change in strategy, but a deafening silence on the complexity and controversy of working with China right now suggests…

Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s long-running fight to block public access to a stretch of Pacific Ocean beach adjacent to his property got new life thanks to an appeals court ruling that could make it harder for surfers and sun seekers to get…

These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them

HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the…

Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot, called Spot. That's raising questions from civil rights advocates about how much oversight there should be over police robotics programs.

LEGO has today announced its acquisition of BrickLink . Read the full press release and our interview on this subject with Julia Goldin, Global Chief Marketing Officer at The LEGO Group, here:

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Residents near renovation sites claim noxious emissions from pipe inserts are making them sick

Using single-cell trannoscriptomics and in vivo injury models, Harvey et al. identify a Tppp3+Pdgfra+ stem cell population in the tendon sheath and demonstrate the role of PDGFRα signalling in regeneration and fibrosis.