3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1237+ words) Oregon psilocybin services enrolled 346 adults for three months, and their depression, anxiety and PTSD scores fell steeply and stayed down. In Oregon, any adult 21 or older can book a supervised psilocybin session at a licensed service center. The client pays…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1156+ words) Tick season can be predicted by white-footed mice and even acorn crops, while 35 years of data found deer numbers had little connection to ticks. Thinning a deer herd is supposed to thin the ticks that carry Lyme disease. In one…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (913+ words) New research shows that shifting urban populations can change how efficiently sewage plants operate, revealing a potential way to cut emissions without new infrastructure. Every year, hundreds of millions of people flood out of Chinese cities for the Lunar New…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (991+ words) Teenagers with bigger differences between weekday and weekend sleep schedules may experience slightly higher anxiety, according to a large review. Teenagers do not always sleep at the same times on school days and weekends. Early school mornings can force them…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (966+ words) Social isolation activates a brain circuit that increases alcohol drinking in male mice, revealing a biological link between loneliness and alcohol use. Being alone for a long time can affect how the brain reacts to stress and rewards. It may…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1299+ words) In hot, dry, still air, vapor from sweaty skin stalls the airflow that cools the body, cutting sweat evaporation by more than half. People get out of the sun by stepping under a canopy or into a half-finished building. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1078+ words) Wildfire smoke now drives most unhealthy air days during pregnancy, with the heaviest exposure falling on rural, low-income and Native communities. America’s skies grew measurably cleaner between 2003 and 2019, sparing far more pregnancies from the hazards of polluted air. Yet one…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1323+ words) A small trial found major PTSD improvements in veterans after psilocybin-assisted therapy, with early gains emerging during pre-dose therapy sessions. For many veterans, years of standard therapy and antidepressants offer little relief from PTSD. A new psilocybin-assisted therapy course yielded…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (726+ words) Thousands of public parks across America sit near toxic-release facilities and Superfund sites, revealing a hidden overlap in communities. More than half of America’s public parks sit within two miles of a facility that handles toxic chemicals. Tens of thousands…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (919+ words) A large analysis finds that cannabis users experienced psychosis 2.5 years earlier on average, with an even wider gap among older adults. Psychosis changes how a person understands reality. It can involve hearing or seeing things that others do not, holding…...