Lowering health risks of cannabis use with new public health guidelines
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...
A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved
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.
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Moth eyes inspire new screen coating, making reading in sunlight a lot easier
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...
Solar heating could cover over 80 percent of domestic heating requirements in Nordic countries
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...
How phytoplankton rule the oceans
Top left: Plant leaves. Top right: cultured cells of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Image A: Electron micrograph of a plant chloroplast revealing its internal...
New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen production
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...
Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast… 8,200 years ago
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...
Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
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...
Select memories can be erased, leaving others intact
Two Aplysia sensory neurons with synaptic contacts on the same motor neuron in culture after isolation from the nervous system of Aplysia. The motor...
How bacterial organelles assemble
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
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Lab grown human colons change study of GI disease
This confocal microscopic image shows a human colon organoid generated in the laboratory with human pluripotent stem cells. The organoid is shown after it...