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  1. Health & Medicine

    MDMA, the key ingredient in Ecstasy, eases symptoms of severe PTSD

    By the end of the trial, 67 percent of the participants who took MDMA had improved so much that they no longer qualified as having a PTSD diagnosis.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Animals

    The U.S.’s first open-air genetically modified mosquitoes have taken flight

    After a decade of argument, Oxitec pits genetically modified mosquitoes against Florida’s spreaders of dengue and Zika.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    Elephants are dying in droves in Botswana. Scientists don’t know why

    Some type of pathogen may be behind the recent deaths of 39 elephants, a new wave that follows 350 deaths last summer.