Governors of Washington state and Rhode Island have petitioned the federal government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug, which would allow it to be used for medical treatment.
Marijuana’s current classification ranks it with other illegal narcotics like heroin and LSD. Its reclassification would rank [...]
Angela Belcher and Gerbrand Ceder of the NSF-supported MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering discovered a new way to get organisms to make batteries. They used a genetically engineered virus to make materials for lithium-ion batteries.
This revolutionary method advances materials science and has the potential to produce batteries with improved capacity and performance.
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Charles and Dolores Weiler had settled in for a winter’s nap when — like Goldilocks — a bear woke them up.
The Weilers live on Stroganof Drive near the top of the residential part of Anchorage’s Hillside, across the street from the Powerline Trail in Chugach State Park and a few hundred [...]
Wild ravens in the Austrian alps have been observed using their beaks and body language to direct another raven’s attention to a specific object, marking the first time such complex gesturing has been documented in an animal outside of humans and their primate cousins.
The findings suggest that Corvus corvax — those [...]
There’s a new kind of dinosaur out there, and it lived in Alaska.
Its bones, long turned to stone, are part of a cliff in northern Alaska. That’s where dinosaur-hunter Tony Fiorillo brushed dirt away from a portion of its massive skull something that most of us would mistake for a rock.
The year [...]
Feeling tense? Paying attention to your breathing for a few minutes could soothe your nerves. Practicing such mindful breathing regularly may even lead to better mental health, according to two recent studies.
In an experiment reported in May in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, researchers at Toho University School of Medicine in Japan taught healthy [...]
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