Project backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos aims to save 100 critically endangered species

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Psilocybin could kick-start anorexia recovery, early results suggest

An active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin has shown early promise for treating eating disorders

Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms

Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic

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How living near mountain lions might actually make you safer

Mountain lions (also known as cougars or pumas) make roads safer by scaring deer and elk that can cause collisions with cars into more remote areas

Neanderthal genes may give modern humans’ muscles a boost

Most of the world's population carries at least a little Neanderthal DNA

Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun

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