A new analysis of cannabis research funding in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has found that $1.56 billion was directed to the topic between 2000 and 2018—with about half of the money spent on understanding the potential harms of the recreational drug. Just over $1 billion came […]
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To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees
PALMYRA ATOLL IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN—Duncan Coles lops the head off a juvenile coconut tree with a practiced swing of his machete. He and nine other volunteers chop away at the thicket, stepping over piles of fallen coconuts and fist-size hermit crabs. Soon they return to their decapitated kills, […]
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Is this the next Ford GT? Team Fordzilla P1 unveils virtual concept car
It used to be that concept or “dream” cars were unveiled at the world’s major auto shows. But to capture the dreams of a younger generation of future car buyers, automakers have created futuristic vehicles specifically for video games.
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Ancient caiman with ‘no parallel in the modern world’ left 46 bite marks on sloth leg
“There is no chance” the sloth survived.
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Comet NEOWISE Was Spiraling and Spinning as it Passed by Earth
Earlier this week, we shared an image of Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. And now, here are a group of images from the 8.1-metre Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. Like Hubble, Gemini North focused in on the comet’s nucleus and coma, instead of its stunning, […]
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New Mercedes-Benz S-Class Won’t Have Coupe or Cabriolet Models
The two-door coupe and droptop versions of the Mercedes flagship will no longer be available starting on the upcoming W223 generation.
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New study questions decades of research on the evolution of spiral galaxies
Previous studies on the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies might have been based on an incorrect assumption, suggests a team of researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. Scientists were surprised to find that this tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy—about […]