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They cost about $11 and contain 60mg of THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, and 10mg of CBD.
We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn’t have to be that way?
As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]
Her support of Democratic candidates has the alt-right furious.
Novels open us to the nuances of being human.
Black scientists lack role models who look like them.
Haley, who’s at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly “shocked” White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.
We need religion not to tell us what to think but to help us feel: it has evolved to manage human emotions.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used survey data from 2 million Americans to examine the links between climate change and mental health issues.
Experiments show brain-to-brain collaboration.
A new study shows how interbreeding of modern humans and Neanderthals boosted our genomes.
Motivation works in some complex ways. There are reward systems, giving a person something they really want after completing a task. There’s reinforcement, punishing bad behavior and buttressing good behavior. […]
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
Achieving successful diversity training can be a challenge for many employers because employees may regard this type of mandatory training as unnecessary, cumbersome, tedious, or even aggravating. Many view them […]
This year’s prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it. Every year, the most prestigious prize in the most fundamental of […]
Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.
The age-old question, finally answered. Kind of.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies recently unveiled the Quintero One, a hyperloop passenger capsule that can travel at a top speed of about 760 mph.
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.
A new study finds that naps bring cognitive benefits.
Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]
The FIRE movement believes frugality is key to retiring in your 30s; others think the movement is about privilege more than prudence.
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory has shown us the Universe like nothing else ever before. When it comes to the Universe, it mainly generates X-rays through high-temperature heating. X-rays from Chandra reveal […]
The history of trading equality for food.
A new study compared cognitive boosts from running versus relaxing.
What an academic sting on humanities journals really means to the rest of us. And to academia.