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Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma. 
Because it's illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug. 
Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, to allow its use in research
The administration doesn't plan to reclassify the drug …

Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD
Ibogaine is used in Mexico and the Caribbean to treat depression, anxiety, addiction and brain trauma.

Motion perception with visual prostheses #BCI #NeuroTech

Direct collapse black hole candidates from decaying dark matter: #SupermassiveBlackHoles: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/04/15/dark-matter-could-explain-earliest-supermassive-black-holes - dark matter decays could be the missing ingredient explaining how giant black holes formed before the first stars.

SPHEREx Widefield Infrared Spectral Mapping of Interstellar Ices and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: #SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/spherex/interstellar-glaciers-nasas-spherex-maps-vast-galactic-ice-regions/

Short-period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-type M Dwarfs: #Planets: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/finding-patterns-in-planets-researchers-explore-the-demographics-of-alien-worlds-in-k2-data - Researchers Explore the Demographics of Alien Worlds in K2 Data.

Proton and Heavy Ion Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection at the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet: #ParkerSolarProbe Finds Surprises in an Explosion Near the Sun: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/04/15/science-nasa-gov-parker-solar-probe-finds-explosive-surprises-on-sun/

Lithium Enrichment in a Subgiant Star with a Brown Dwarf Companion - A Planetary Engulfment Candidate: #lithium, a sign that it may have recently consumed a planet: https://news.umich.edu/you-just-ate-that-planet-didnt-you/

A Deep Search for #Exomoons around WISE 0855 with JWST: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae17ca -> interview with first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7UkyBKN0A

A Census before Rubin of #Asteroid Families in the Main Belt: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae4bd4 -> more graphics in the thread https://bsky.app/profile/thunkii.bsky.social/post/3mlrw4pyv2s2q

Carbon Cycle Imbalances on Arid Terrestrial Planets with Implications for #Venus: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa -> Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/04/15/planets-need-more-water-to-support-life/