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California's cannabis industry is already facing challenges before sales begin in January. Legalizing pot resulted in a bevy of taxes that may force prices to rise by 70 percent.

(Queen's University) High-risk newborn infants in intensive care at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) will be the first in Canada to be monitored and evaluated for their feeding skills in a novel research initiative...

News The new probes are expected to give scientists a much clearer picture of how different parts of the brain work together to process information ... Contributed Author: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Topics: Neurolog...

News The TUM Nano-CT system is based on a newly developed x-ray source, which generates a particularly focused beam, without relying on x-ray optics ... Contributed Author: Technical University of Munich (TUM) Topics: Me...

News The TUM Nano-CT system is based on a newly developed x-ray source, which generates a particularly focused beam, without relying on x-ray optics ... Contributed Author: Technical University of Munich (TUM) Topics: Me...

UNESCO November 10th is World Science Day, presented by UNESCO, AND Science Museum Day, presented by the International Science Center. To celebrate, SciStarter's editors have selected six citizen science projects organiz...

News Specifically, it can be used in diagnostic and monitoring systems, wearables, and implants ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News The novel technology has already led to a new discovery: the speed of mixing ingredients for quantum dots used in LEDs changes the color of light they emit - even when all other variables are identical ... Contribut...

News Flash memory is a non-volatile, transistor-based data-storage device that has become essential in most electronic systems in daily life ... Contributed Author: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...

News Heart cells beating on the device cause the structural color to change which can be detected easily with low power microscope ... Contributed Author: Kyoto University Topics: Cardiovascular

News Long carbon nanotubes are a subtype of nanotubes used in the manufacture of incredibly strong, yet lightweight, materials ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

9 November, 2017 - For the fourth consecutive day, the World Health Organization's operations in Yemen have been severely hampered due to the closure of all land, sea and air ports.

Can even moderate alcohol drinking increase the risk of cancer? A new statement from the ASCO warns that even a drink or two per day can still increase the risk.

(University of California - Riverside) In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine used high-powered micr...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) By teaching patients better strategies for coping with chronic pain, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a valuable treatment alternative for the millions of Americans taking opioids for noncanc...

(American Geriatrics Society) In a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers examined the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), an evidence-based treatment plan developed in the 199...

(Elsevier) With a scarcity of lungs available for transplantation, the use of lungs from donors older than age 60 has been shown to achieve reasonable outcomes and should be considered as a viable option, according to re...

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) The vaccine that protects against cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus (HPV) also prevents an uncommon but incurable childhood respiratory disease, according to a new stud...

(Carnegie Mellon University) The federal government launched the BRAIN Initiative in 2013 to ignite the development and application of new technologies needed for major advances toward understanding the brain. Carnegie M...

(American Geriatrics Society) Although we know that obese older adults may be surviving heart surgery with more complications, few researchers have studied how well they can manage daily activities like eating, bathing, ...

(Scripps Research Institute) Celgene Corporation recently announced results from two phase 3 trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of the drug ozanimod. Ozanimod was invented by scientists at The Scripps Research Ins...

(University of Guelph) Milkweed plants in agricultural areas have 3 1/2 times more monarch butterfly eggs than milkweed growing in urban gardens, natural areas and roadsides, according to a new University of Guelph study...