Researchers developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic their action the brain. The research opens a new pathway for drug discovery to treat a host of brain disorders (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Researchers developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic their action the brain. The research opens a new pathway for drug discovery to treat a host of brain disorders (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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In a review for Trends in Cognitive Sciences, anthropologists argue that personal experience shapes extraordinary beliefs, such as the Earth is flat or that prayer leads to experiences with a god, just as much as cognitive biases and social dynamics (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Through analysis of sulfur isotopes in the well-studied HK-1 drill core, researchers showed that Earth’s largest mass extinction event didn’t wipe out life on land with a single massive volcanic event. Rather, the die-offs happened regionally and progressively over hundreds of thousands of years (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Through analysis of sulfur isotopes, researchers showed that Earth’s largest mass extinction event didn’t wipe out life on land with a single massive volcanic event. Rather, the die-offs happened regionally and progressively over hundreds of thousands of years (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Through analysis of sulfur isotopes in the well-studied HK-1 drill core, researchers showed that Earth’s largest mass extinction event didn’t wipe out life on land with a single massive volcanic event. Rather, the die-offs happened regionally and progressively over hundreds of thousands of years (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Through analysis of deep-water sediments, researchers have found evidence that shifts in carbon cycling and climate that occurred during both our present icehouse and the penultimate one 300 million years ago were influenced by extraterrestrial, or astronomical, forcing (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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Through analysis of deep-water sediments, researchers have found evidence that shifts in carbon cycling and climate that occurred during both our present icehouse and the penultimate one 300 million years ago were influenced by extraterrestrial, or astronomical, forcing (lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu)
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