Nearly 70 percent of cannabidiol extracts sold online are mislabeled, study shows
There is growing consumer demand for cannabidiol (CBD), a constituent of the cannabis plant, due to its purported medicinal benefits for myriad health conditions....
Companion’s comets the key to curious exoplanet system?
Artist’s impression of the Fomalhaut system. The newly discovered comet belt around Fomalhaut C is shown to the left. The comet belt around Fomalhaut...
Magnetar formation mystery solved? Supernova explosions and dizzying spins in a binary system
This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1. This remarkable cluster contains hundreds of very massive...
One-of-a-kind star discovered, nicknamed ‘Nasty’
This visible-light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake-shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way...
To prevent cancer in butterfly disease patients
A novel gene defect that causes a hereditary blistering disorder of the skin, epidermolysis bullosa, was identified in dogs.
Credit: Hannes Lohi research group
Researchers at...
Gene finding to eradicate severe blistering disorder of the skin found in dogs
A novel gene defect that causes a hereditary blistering disorder of the skin, epidermolysis bullosa, was identified in dogs.
Credit: Hannes Lohi research group
Researchers at...
Boy is given new skin thanks to gene therapy
Stem cell graft.
Credit: Copyright Frank Jacobsen
A medical team at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum's burn unit and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of...
Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors
Femoral head bones of different species illustrating the size range in the hominin lineage. From top to bottom: Australopithecus afarensis (4-3 million years; ~40...
Cockatoo select the right key to insert into a ‘keyhole’
Cockatoo selects the right key to insert into the keyhole shape for a reward of a nut.
Credit: Copyright Bene Croy
The Goffin's cockatoo is not...
Skilful cockatoos able to shape same tool from different materials
The cockatoos can cut out elongated tools of a cardboard to rake pieces of food.
Credit: Bene Croy
Tool manufacture was once regarded a defining feature...
Chip-based sensors with incredible sensitivity
This is a chip-scale glass microspherical shell sensor array blown on a silicon substrate. Insert is a near-perfect spherical shell.
Credit: Tadigadapa Lab/Penn State
In London's...
