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The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secreted by desert toads

Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the man who claimed it has amazing powers.

2026-08-19 · 17:00 UTC
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Crypto

Are Cardano & Ondo Drowning? BlockDAG’s Live Stablecoin Beta Triggers Mass Buying 

2026-08-19 · 17:00

Crypto market analysts continually examine technical structures to formulate a realistic Cardano price prediction while…

Science

Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitting windows? Part 4

2026-08-19 · 17:00

Answers continue to pour in as New Scientist readers ponder this question, with one reader widening it out to consider…

Science

This week’s new questions

2026-08-19 · 17:00

Why do humans have a common sense of beauty for things like sunsets, and do other animals share this appreciation?

Science

Moderna Stock Doubles on Cancer Breakthrough: Here’s What It Means

2026-08-19 · 16:54

A Phase 3 win against the standard of care sent the biotech's shares up 131% and left short sellers down $4.8 billion.

Science

mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

2026-08-19 · 16:53

The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.

Sports

Tongue takes back-to-back wickets but misses out on hat-trick

2026-08-19 · 16:31

Josh Tongue removes Salman Ali Agha and Ali Usman in back-to-back balls but falls just short of the hat-trick as Khurram…

Tech

Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $100K Startup Accelerator

2026-08-19 · 16:31

Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and…

Science

Lindsay Clancy's trial puts postpartum psychosis on the map

2026-08-19 · 16:30

Postpartum psychosis is a psychiatric emergency that can involve mania, depression, hallucinations and delusions.

Tech

StanChart, HSBC execute first live transaction on Swift blockchain ledger

2026-08-19 · 16:30

The transaction connected the banks’ separate tokenized deposit systems through Swift’s ledger, marking a step toward…

Sports

Questions remain over Vieira deal amid Senegal uncertainty

2026-08-19 · 16:26

Questions remain over the appointment of Patrick Vieira as Senegal's new head coach, with the country's football…

Tech

Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs

2026-08-19 · 16:26

Large language models are enabling a shift toward "extensible software" that allows individual users to customize…

Crypto

CFTC Bans Caroline Ellison From Trading for 5 Years Over FTX

2026-08-19 · 16:25

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang received multiyear CFTC bans under final orders resolving their FTX-related civil cases.

Tech

How Kubernetes Probes Work

2026-08-19 · 16:25

Kubernetes probes are periodic health checks that come in three types—startup, readiness, and liveness—designed to make…

Tech

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

2026-08-19 · 16:18

Researchers found that chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models is often unfaithful, meaning the verbalized…

Tech

Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?

2026-08-19 · 16:11

Google's new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones.

Crypto

Bitcoin Surges Toward $70K as $1.14 Billion in Crypto Shorts Get Rekt in an Hour

2026-08-19 · 16:10

A White House sitdown with crypto's biggest names and softer Fed signals lit the fuse.

Tech

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state

2026-08-19 · 16:07

# Summary Security expert Bruce Schneier's concept of "civic hygiene" warns against building surveillance technologies…

World

Two detained after French influencer's scorched body found in vineyard

2026-08-19 · 16:04

Sonia Bellina's body was "abandoned" after "a murder of rare savagery", the family's lawyer says.

Sports

Reijnders leaves Man City for Al-Qadsiah in £52m deal

2026-08-19 · 16:01

Netherlands midfielder Tijjani Reijnders completes a £52m move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Qadsiah from Manchester City.

Crypto

Coinbase Adds 50x Crypto Perps to Base App Through Hyperliquid

2026-08-19 · 16:00

The Hyperliquid integration gives eligible Base App users access to more than 290 perpetual futures markets.

Crypto

Standard Chartered analyst eyes $100K BTC as US Treasury doubles long-end buybacks

2026-08-19 · 16:00

Bitcoin’s rebound toward $69,000 is gaining momentum as Geoff Kendrick points to improving liquidity conditions and a…

Crypto

Stablecoin Liquidity Falls as Reserves Concentrate on Binance

2026-08-19 · 16:00

Binance now holds 68.5% of centralized exchange stablecoins as overall liquidity contracts during the 2026 crypto bear…

Sports

Delap loses number nine shirt & trains away from first team

2026-08-19 · 15:58

Chelsea have split their players into two training groups at Cobham, involving several players who could move before the…