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SpaceX launched four people to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday, as Elon Musk’s company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions.Known as Crew-5, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the ISS for a six-month stay in orbit. The mission is SpaceX’s fifth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the company’s eighth human spaceflight in just over two years.”That was a smooth ride uphill,” NASA astronaut and Crew-5 commander Nicole Mann said after the spacecraft reached orbit, adding that “you got three rookies that are pretty happy to be floating in…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAmong the big winners in Elon Musk’s agreement to follow through with his deal to buy Twitter is an activist hedge fund based in a coastal Florida city that was just wrecked by Hurricane Ian.Pentwater Capital, a 15-year-old firm with close to $5 billion in assets, bought a 2.4% stake in Twitter during the second quarter. The purchase of 18.1 million shares cost Pentwater roughly $725 million.At $54.20, the price Musk has agreed to pay for Twitter, Pentwater’s stake would be worth about $980 million. The stock closed up 22% on Tuesday at $52,…

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As the weather grows colder, you may find yourself experiencing a second — or even third — round of Covid infection.That prompts a few questions: Will getting Covid again be similar to my previous experience? Will it be any different than last time? Will my symptoms be more or less severe?The answer to all of them, experts say: It’s complicated. It depends on how long it’s been since you last had Covid, your risk of severe disease and how long it’s been since you were last vaccinated — if you’re vaccinated at all.”With reinfection, it’s kind of all over the map,”…

An Austrian soldier guards the entrance to the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022 on the eve of the 45th Meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee and the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held on October 05, in Vienna, Austria. Joe Klamar | AFP | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — A desperate, last-ditch effort by the Biden White House to convince OPEC+ members to vote against a proposed production cut at Wednesday’s meeting in Vienna failed, as the oil-producing cartel announced a larger-than-expected output cut of 2 million barrels per day.Shortly after the announcement, President Joe Biden told reporters at the…

Previous studies have shown that psychedelic drugs such as LSD (acid) and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) may potentially treat depression but can cause disturbing hallucinations in some cases.Researchers recently developed two novel compounds that target the same subtype of serotonin receptors as LSD and psilocybin but do not produce hallucinations.Like psychedelic substances, these novel compounds showed antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects in animal models at lower doses than Prozac.These compounds hold promise for the development of potential treatments for depression and other mental health disorders.In a recent study published in Nature, scientists identified two compounds that activate the same receptor in the…

HANOI: Vietnam has asked Netflix to stop showing the South Korean drama series Little Women in the Southeast Asian country, alleging the series distorted events of the Vietnam War, state media said Wednesday (Oct 5). In episode eight of the 12-part drama, which is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, a war veteran from South Korea is seen bragging about the “kill-to-death ratio” between troops from his country and the Viet Cong. More than 320,000 South Koreans were sent to Vietnam between 1964 and 1973 to fight alongside US soldiers. They have long…