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Claims about the health benefits of cannabidiol have outpaced credible research, but CBD does show some real promise

The weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis.

Asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA intentionally hit with a rocket during its DART mission in September 2022, is behaving in unpredicted ways.

Male frogs will sometimes try to mate with turtles or inanimate objects, and now there is evidence that the behaviour began deep in prehistory with the first frogs

New COVID vaccines have been approved to guard against coronavirus variants that are currently circulating.

Researchers at MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology developed a tool that can measure the size of a plasma source and the color of the light it emits simultaneously. "Measuring both at the same time enables us to further i...

A new study indicates a link between the co-use of tobacco and cannabis and heightened rates of anxiety and depression. Analyzing data from the COVID-19 Citizens Health Study, researchers delved into the substance use ha...

A new study delves into the role of lifestyle choices in mitigating depression risks. Drawing from the UK Biobank, researchers analyzed data from nearly 290,000 participants, determining that seven key lifestyle habits s...

Researchers have pioneered a non-invasive technique to map the human auditory pathway, crucial for determining the optimal surgical treatment for profound hearing loss. The method is designed to aid early interventions, ...

To stay within safe planetary boundaries, humans should only use around 10 per cent of the biomass produced each year by plants on land, but we are currently way above that level

Animal footprints carved into rock thousands of years ago depict over 40 species, a trio of trackers has determined

A recent study illuminates the brain's unique response to stress: releasing its own cannabinoid molecules akin to THC from cannabis plants. Centered in the amygdala, these molecules counteract stress alarms originating f...

With just a few weeks to go, now is the time to grab your tickets to the world's greatest festival of ideas, says Emily Wilson

How powerful is artificial intelligence? Where has it sprung from? Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave is one of four disquieting books which set out to explore AI's hold on the world

Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps avid fans to normalise the concept of time dilation, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Mycologists Danny Newman and Roo Vandegrift spent more than a decade scouting for fungi in the threatened Los Cedros reserve in Ecuador. See some of their finds here

New research points to the possibility that the development of a pathobiome in the brain could play a role in Alzheimer's and related dementias. Studying brain samples, researchers discovered Alzheimer's-affected brains ...

A new study delves into the relationship between antidepressants and memory dynamics. The study reveals that these drugs may dampen negative memories and bolster overall memory function in individuals with depression.

Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems much faster than ordinary computers by using specific quantum properties. The basic building blocks of such machines are called quantum-bits or qubits. Qubits ca...

Almost a century ago, physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted a theoretical state of matter in which individual particles would, at extremely cold temperatures and low densities, condense into an ind...

Researchers pioneered a groundbreaking method called "CHOOSE" to investigate genes tied to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within human tissue. This technique allows for simultaneous examination of key transcriptional reg...

The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will attempt to launch its Aurora rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometres, the generally accepted boundary of space