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Lowering health risks of cannabis use with new public health guidelines

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Marijuana plant (stock image). Credit: © jonnysek / Fotolia Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines, released with the endorsement of key medical and public health organizations, provide...
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A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved

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This is a wave-interference and resonant energy transfer from one source to another distant source or object, pertaining to the fundamental concept of resonances. Credit:...
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Moth eyes inspire new screen coating, making reading in sunlight a lot easier

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Researchers created a film of moth-eye-like nanostructures that can improve the sunlight visibility of screens on mobile phones and tablets. The images show the...
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Solar heating could cover over 80 percent of domestic heating requirements in Nordic countries

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In the Eko-Viikki housing area in Helsinki, Finland, nine properties have been equipped with solar heating systems for producing heat for water heating systems...
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How phytoplankton rule the oceans

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Top left: Plant leaves. Top right: cultured cells of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Image A: Electron micrograph of a plant chloroplast revealing its internal...
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New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen production

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Brookhaven Lab chemists Ping Liu and José Rodriguez helped to characterize structural and mechanistic details of a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen...
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Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast… 8,200 years ago

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This image shows a dated quarter section of the White Moon Cave stalagmite that spans the period of the Holocene anomaly. Credit: Jessica Oster, Vanderbilt...
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Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy

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This scaled-up test bed of NEWT's direct solar desalination technology uses carbon black nanoparticles that convert as much as 80 percent of sunlight energy...
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Select memories can be erased, leaving others intact

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Two Aplysia sensory neurons with synaptic contacts on the same motor neuron in culture after isolation from the nervous system of Aplysia. The motor...
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How bacterial organelles assemble

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Researchers at Berkeley Lab and MSU have obtained the first atomic-level view of an intact bacterial microcompartment, shown here. Credit: Markus Sutter/Berkeley Lab and MSU Scientists...
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Lab grown human colons change study of GI disease

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This confocal microscopic image shows a human colon organoid generated in the laboratory with human pluripotent stem cells. The organoid is shown after it...