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Artist’s depiction of an armored fish that lived 455 million years ago. Illustration: Nobumichi Tamura The conditions under which early lifeforms originated and exploded into the many animal groups we see today is a mystery that has confounded scientists for decades. New research suggests shallow marine environments were a critical testbed for these early animals,…

Photo: Daniel Berehulak (Getty Images) The active ingredient that makes magic mushrooms so magic—the psychedelic drug psilocybin—is one step closer to becoming a legal treatment for difficult cases of depression. This week, the company Compass Pathways announced that it had received the Food and Drug Administration’s Breakthrough Therapy designation for its psilocybin-based treatment. The designation will…

Photo: Getty Toronto’s Pearson Airport has an important message for would-be stem-pickers: The weed there is not up for grabs. Last week, Canada legalized recreational cannabis, becoming the second country in the world to formally do so. While cannabis is legal within Canada, however, it is illegal to transport it across the country’s borders. To…

Image: Christie’s/Obvious A painting made by an artificial intelligence program sold at Christie’s in New York auction on Thursday for $432,500—far more than the estimated $7,000 to $10,000. An anonymous phone bidder bought the painting, Portrait of Edmond Belamy, which was created by an algorithm developed by the Paris art collective Obvious. The three-person team…

ZTE posted in the official Nubia account in Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, posted the teaser on the new generation of gaming smartphone Nubia Red Magic. The poster confirmed that the ZTE Nubia Red Magic 2 will be based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, top processor 2018. The smartphone will receive 10 GB of RAM,…

Company DxO Labs, which owns the popular service DxOMark dealing with professional camera, conducted a review of the smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix, announced only today. Experts estimated the Chinese debutant at the level of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 — the most expensive flagship of the Korean manufacturer at the moment. Xiaomi Mi 3…

Huawei has published a new teaser video to his Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, for flagship smartphone-Honor the Magic of the slider 2. Video confirms previous leaks and shows the smartphone from different angles. In particular, shows a triple main camera and action of the slider mechanism. According to earlier leaks, the smartphone…

Lenovo said in his Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, about the upcoming announcement of the unusual smartphone Lenovo Z5 Pro. It will be held at the event in Beijing, scheduled for November 1, 2018. Earlier, top managers of Lenovo said that the Lenovo Z5 Pro got nearly 100% coverage screen front panel. The…

As expected, the company Xiaomi unveiled today at an event in China its new flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix. Unlike predecessors, he has got quite thin screen frame without “chin”. The problem with the placement of the front camera has been solved with the help of a slider mechanism, the screen moves down, opening…

China is building a particle accelerator that will be two times more and seven times more powerful belonging to the CERN Large hadron Collider. Martin Rees, known for his contributions to the science of the formation of black holes, extragalactic radio sources and the evolution of the universe, believes that there is a chance that…