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A powerful lobby could be an unintended consequence of legalising the drug. Could Canada's regulatory approach ensure public health comes before profit?

A mathematical model that predicts how water condenses around tiny particles could help to improve chemical industrial processes, including the production of drug tablets, fertilizers and catalysts.

A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart -- epicardium cells -- according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers.

It seems the search for particles of dark matter has come up short once again, leading some scientists to question whether we should be looking for particles at all. Two of the world's most massive detector projects--Chi...

A claim that baboons are capable of five vowel-like sounds could mean key features of spoken language emerged with the common ancestor of monkey and humans

The energy density contained in the center of a star is higher than we can imagine - many billions of atmospheres, compared with the 1 atmosphere of pressure we live with here on Earth's surface.

Researchers have discovered a new biological target for drugs to reduce the spread of tumours in cancer patients. The study with genetically modified mice found 23 genes that are involved in regulating the spread of canc...

Researchers shed new light on the functioning of human gut bacteria, revealing how nutrients are transported into the bacterial cell.

Life is a question of balance, and the body is no exception. Expression levels of certain proteins can affect the immune system's ability to neutralize a virus. Type I interferons (IFN-I) are cytokines that were previous...

Flies with a history of eating a high sugar diet live shorter lives, even after their diet improves. This is because the unhealthy diet drives long-term reprogramming of gene expression, according to a team of researcher...

A new global study projects that a government-supported intervention to reduce national salt consumption by 10 percent over 10 years would be a highly cost-effective 'best buy' for preventing cardiovascular disease acros...

A special trick with lasers helped lower a nano-sized membrane to below the "quantum limit" - colder than was thought possible

We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and tech companies--many recent disruptive events have taken...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave physics phenomenon called bound states in the continuum. The technology could revolutionize ...

A spray that kills crop pests by switching off genes without changing them offers the chance to reach a consensus on genetic modification. It must not be squandered

A cash-starved health service like the NHS has to make tough decisions on drug funding - but the "worthiness" of patients shouldn't be a factor

Located at 5250 metres above sea level in Tibet, Ngari-1 will hunt for gravitational waves that should have been thrown out by the big bang

A pyramid-shaped carbon molecule breaks one of the most basic lessons of chemistry textbooks - bonding with six other atoms instead of the typical four

Bats in Brazil exclusively feed on bird blood, but new arrivals in their territory are now on the menu - they have been caught feasting on human blood

Bats in Brazil exclusively feed on bird blood, but new arrivals in their territory are now on the menu - they have been caught feasting on human blood

2 billion light-years away, galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and Abell 3412 are colliding. Observations using the Chandra X-ray Telescope and other telescopes has revealed evidence of black hole eruptions.

As we get older, our brain cells show changes that can be used to predict someone's age, a new study finds.