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• Here's what the actual research says about the dangers of cannabis use

  A research team parsed 68 current cannabis studies last year on behalf of the Canadian government. The goal was to determine what dangers citizens would face once the drug was legalized. What they learned was science doesn't know much about cannabis. Fiona Clement, a health-policy ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why this Polish village hasn’t seen a boy born in 10 years

  The tiny Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie has become the unlikely source of international media attention over the past fortnight as a result of what the New York Times called “a strange population anomaly”. It has now been almost a decade since the last boy was born in this ...

  • The Conversation

• You're still you when you're drunk, science says

  Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did after that extra drink the night before. And then suddenly, the memories vividly resurface. Alcohol disinhibits us, making us say and do things that we’d otherwise keep under ...

  • The Conversation

• This thought experiment explains how quantum computers can time travel

  You know how sometimes you find yourself facing off against an enemy spaceship in a Wild West-inspired laser duel where whoever ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Trump-appointed NASA head just declared Pluto a planet again

  NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine – a politician who's probably seen one or two episodes of “Cosmos” – has officially declared Pluto a planet again. His reasoning: that's the way he learned it in high school. https://twitter.com/CReppWx/status/1164981282562039809 Bridenstine's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Study: Either the Hubble Constant is wrong or the universe is ripping itself apart

  The science community has a crisis on its hands. Some anarchist physicists recently started kicking the tires on the Standard Model and they figured out the universe is expanding faster than it should be. This means the worst possible outcome imaginable has come to pass: scientists ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Plant cells signal between each other to agree on what time it is

  Anyone who has travelled across multiple time zones and suffered jet lag will understand just how powerful our biological clocks are. In fact, every cell in the human body has its own molecular clock, which is capable of generating a daily rise and fall in the number of many proteins ...

  • The Conversation

• Researchers propose aggressive new method to eradicate online hate groups

  A team of researchers from George Washington University and the University of Miami recently published the results of a study to determine the ecological makeup of online hate groups. Based on their findings, they've come up with four strategies to disrupt these groups and, hopefully, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists at an aquarium just figured out how to save Florida's 'Great Barrier Reef'

  Scientists in Florida may have just saved the the third largest coral reef on the planet. Florida Aquarium Senior Coral ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Animals eat each other, so why don't we?

  Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans ...

  • The Conversation

• The Moonprentice: Newt Gingrich wants 'reality show' contest with Musk and Bezos to colonize Luna

  A coalition including Michael Jackson's former publicist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and an Air Force general want ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Dinosaur egg bonanza gives vital clues about prehistoric parenting

  Perhaps the most amazing thing about fossils is that they don’t just show us what extinct animals looked like, they can ...

  • The Conversation