Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months

Magic mushrooms are one of the psychedelics showing real medical potential John Moore/Getty Images A single dose of psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – produces rapid reductions in symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to the first placebo-controlled trial to test the psychedelic for the mental health condition. The effects also seem…

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State AGs sue after Supreme Court decision

U.S. President Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Brian Snyder | David Dee Delgado | Reuters New York Attorney General Letitia James and the top prosecutors of 23 other states once again sued to block President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime, just days after a landmark Supreme Court decision struck down his…

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OpenAI’s Pentagon deal once again calls Sam Altman’s credibility into question

Altman was supportive of Anthropic in its contract dispute with the Pentagon, but all the while he was positioning his company to supplant its rival’s AI models with its own.   Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week via…

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Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds

Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 in Scientific Reports. “I’m obsessed with the plant,” says fluid dynamicist Sara Oliveira Santos of the University of Texas at Austin. “The fact that…

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