It makes rejection, teasing or criticism feel unbearable, often prompting a strong physical reaction. Sufferers describe life with a condition that is only just starting to be understood Jenna Turnbull’s chest is tightening. The 36-year-old civil servant, who lives in Cardiff, can picture herself as she speaks: an 11-year-old in...
Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators Tropical flowers are blooming months earlier or later than they used to because of climate breakdown, with potentially “cascading impacts across ecosystems”, according to a study of 8,000 plants dating back 200 years. Researchers looked...
Ayahuasca psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy
Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome ‘promising’ results A phase II clinical trial has found dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the psychoactive components traditionally used in the Amazonian psychedelic ritual ayahuasca, might be a promising therapy for depression. The psychedelic pharmaceutical company Small Pharma (now Cybin...
How ancient Scottish rocks throw ‘snowball Earth’ theory up in the air
Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer, autumn and winter all stopped. Or at least that...
Toxic waste from screens ends up in endangered dolphins, study finds
Gene-altering chemicals found in humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising alarm they may end up in human food chain Toxic e-waste chemicals from television, computer and smartphone screens have been found in the brains and bodies of endangered dolphins and porpoises in the South China Sea. Research published in Environmental...
Pennsylvania residents question police response to student ICE protesters after juveniles detained
Some residents in the Philadelphia suburb of Quakertown are calling for the police chief to resign after a scuffle between police and students protesting ICE policies left several juveniles in custody
Woman charged in connection with stolen ambulance driven into building housing DHS
A Boise, Idaho, woman is being charged with malicious destruction of federal property by fire after prosecutors say she stole an ambulance, drove it into a building that houses U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices and then poured accelerant inside
Man fatally stabs 4 people in Washington state as deputies head to serve him a restraining order
Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state as sheriff's deputies were on their way to deliver him a domestic violence protection order
Ex-LA fire chief sues the city over her firing after the Palisades Fire
The former Los Angeles fire chief has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that her ouster was part of an orchestrated effort to smear her conduct and decision-making so Mayor Karen Bass could avoid accountability for the most destructive wildfir...
Mystic Seaport workers dig out historic whaling ship after snowstorm
Mystic Seaport Museum workers are digging heavy snow off historic wooden ships, including the Charles W