Future Jist 15
Your weekly curation of 4 impactful future-oriented stories.
💊️Tweaked psychedelic could treat depression and addiction: A lot of the rhetoric around Psychedelics feels like that of the insurgency of marijuana circa 2016-17 when it was right about to become mainstream. This time, however, the result of said mainstreaming may have far more obvious medical benefits. More recently the University of California, Davis created a modified version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine (a psychedelic whose side effects include cardiac toxicity) that was not only safe to consume but drastically decreased depression in mice. Psychedelics have been known to help people with acute addiction and various mental ailments. This is one step forward in making them suitable for conventional use. (564 words)
☀️Scientists Just Set a New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency: There’s been a breakthrough in solar cell efficiency making use of Perovskite-Silicon tandem cells, just one type of cell in contention to be used in the Solar Panels of the near future. After 300 hours of testing, the cells retained 95% of their efficiency which is promising in itself. The introduction of this compound does not substantially add to the cost of the solar cell and helps keep them cheap. (472 words)
👁️Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both: In a phase 3 clinical trial, it was found that patients being treated for LHON( Leber hereditary optic neuropathy) with a gene therapy injection in one eye gained significant improvement in vision for both eyes. LHON has few effective treatments. As such, this represents a massive breakthrough in the search for one. (803 words)
💉️China conducting biological tests to create super soldiers, US spy chief says: The CCP seems to be having an Amerikkka and Nazi Germany moment simultaneously, in that in some ways its development is starting to resemble that of the aforementioned down to some of its darkest moments. Yes, it has even enslaved its Uighur population and has made them cotton pickers. Sound familiar? In a more futuristic development, the CCP seems to be experimenting with its soldiers in an attempt to make them superhuman. Will this development alter warfare as we know it? Will the CCP succeed? Only time will tell. It is an interesting development regardless. (372 words)
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