Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab read this articleLarissa Hope believes psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, helped her through a difficult mental health condition.Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV drama Skins, but the new-found fame brought out a previously buried trauma. She didn't find antidepressants effective - but that small dose of psilocybin, which she took under clinical supervision, marked a turning point."When I experienced it, I burst out crying," she says today. "It was the first...
Georgina RannardScience correspondentNASA"Building even a modest lunar habitat to accommodate a small crew would demand megawatt-scale power generation. Solar arrays and batteries alone cannot...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), a sophisticated Earth observation satellite developed in collaboration with...
Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsThe findings challenge "long-standing assumptions" about life's potential at such extreme depths and pressures. They also suggest that these communities...