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Your brain on drugs: Psychedelic therapeutic Cybin and neuroimaging technology startup Kernel will examine patients' brains while they are taking ketamine. getty The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a clinical trial using a Los Angeles-based Kernel neuroimaging helmet to track what happens in the brain when a person takes a psychedelic dose of ketamine. Cybin, a Toronto-based psychedelic therapeutic startup, is sponsoring the study. The study will begin before the end of the year in 15 patients at a ketamine-assisted therapy clinic in Marina Del Rey, California. All patients go through two rounds of the study. The first will be a placebo session of saline so that the Kernel Flow brain imaging device can get a baseline of the patient's neurological activity, and the second session will give patients an intramuscular injection of a psychedelic dose of ketamine while doing the Kernel Flow. Wear a headset. Alex Belser, Cybin's Chief Clinical Office...

A solar flare was observed on the sun at around 9:05 p.m. on October 28th. During a solar flare, charged particles are ejected from the sun at high speeds. The earth's atmosphere protects us humans from these particles. But they can interact with the earth's magnetic field, induce strong electrical currents on the surface, and affect man-made structures such as satellites, power grids, and even disrupt our internet connection. POW! The sun has just served a powerful flare! ☀️ 💥 At 11:35 a.m. EDT today, a powerful X1-class solar flare broke out from the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured everything on camera. 📸 More in our Solar Cycle 25 blog: https://t.co/L5yS3hJRTx pic.twitter.com/iTwZZ7tCOY - NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) October 28, 2021 An analysis by the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) showed that the coronal mass ejection left the Sun at a speed of 973 km / s and is expected to arrive on October 30, with the effects expected to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - More and more state prison systems are equipping guards with body-worn cameras, even in correctional facilities that are already covered by thousands of stationary security cameras. Authorities hope the additional cameras will help reduce violence and hold inmates and guards accountable, although experts and unions have questioned their usefulness in addition to existing cameras. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction hopes to announce which of four companies has won an order valued at approximately $ 17 million per year by the end of the year. The Ohio agency began investigating the issue after a California judge ordered body-worn cameras for guards at a San Diego state prison after allegations of abuse of disabled prisoners. California later expanded the cameras to five other prisons. The death of an Ohio inmate in January during a scuffle with guards accelerated the investigation into the use of the cameras, although the pilot program was alr...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, USA on October 27, 2021. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid The US economy grew the slowest in more than a year in the third quarter Caterpillar and Merck rise after higher profits Indices up: Dow 0.47%, S&P 0.60%, Nasdaq 0.71% Oct. 28 (Reuters) - Wall Street major indexes rose Thursday as bullish quarterly earnings from Caterpillar, Merck and Ford helped investors shake off data showing US economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter. Ford Motor Co (FN) rose 11.2% after the automaker beat third-quarter earnings estimates and raised its earnings forecast for the full year. Continue reading Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) was up 2.9% after announcing quarterly earnings from high commodity prices, while a quarterly hit and a forecast increase from drug maker Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) helped its stock rise Won 4.0%. Continue reading Ten of the top 11 S&P sectors made strides in early trading, with technol...

Microsoft today stepped up its commitment to conserving water and energy in its data centers, developing new cooling technologies and strategies that could push notoriously thirsty and energy hungry servers beyond their current limits. The company's latest environmental pledge is to dramatically expand the number of data centers it operates around the world, a move that could place greater stress on drought-hit communities if the company can't find a way to use less water. Microsoft plans to reduce the water consumption of its data centers by 95 percent by 2024 with the aim of "finally" eliminating water consumption. This builds on last year's commitment to become “water positive” by the end of the decade, which means replenishing more water than it uses to run its operations. In 2020, Microsoft also made a commitment to go carbon negative by the same deadline, meaning it plans to absorb and store more planet-warming CO2 than it releases. Plans to drastically...

October 25 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) announced Monday that it will publish the financial results of its augmented and virtual reality labs as a separate entity, where it is investing billions in its ambition, the "Metaverse" and how it reported that its primary advertising business is facing "significant uncertainty". Facebook, which reported a 17% gain for the third quarter, warned that Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new privacy changes would weigh on digital businesses in the current quarter. The social media company reported quarterly revenue that was below market expectations, which analysts said was due to the iOS changes, according to chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. David Wehner, Facebook's chief financial officer, said the company expects its investment in its hardware division, Facebook Reality Labs, will reduce total operating income by approximately $ 10 billion in 2021. The financial commitment to this hardware-focused entity that will work ...