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Your Dog Can Get Sick from Marijuana. Here's How to Prevent Pot Poisoning.

February 09, 2019 | Article

Pets can get sick — or, in rare cases, die — from eating cannabis. Second-hand smoke can affect animals as well. Follow the "ABCs" of cannabis safety to protect your pets.
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How Does Consciousness Arise in the Brain?

February 07, 2019 | Article

It's one of the most important unanswered questions of modern neuroscience.
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Why Physicists Are Interested in the Mysterious Quirks of the Heftiest Quark

February 05, 2019 | Article

The top quark is about 100 trillion times heavier than the up quark. But why?
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First Private Lunar Spacecraft Shoots for the Moon

February 01, 2019 | Article

The private space race is about to take another great leap as Israel sends a private lander to the moon.
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How Did Uranus End Up On Its Side?

January 24, 2019 | Article

A body at least twice as massive as the Earth smashing into Uranus could have made it lopsided, shows research.
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How to Destroy the Earth in 3 Easy Steps

January 23, 2019 | Article

Mad scientists through the ages have dreamed of holding the world hostage by threatening to destroy the whole thing. Here's how that could work.
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Did 'The Big Bang Theory' Get the Science Right? A Lesson in Supersymmetry and Economy Class

January 22, 2019 | Article

Is super asymmetry a thing? And do big physicists really travel economy class?
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How a German City Developed — And Then Lost — Generations of Math Geniuses

January 19, 2019 | Article

Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
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Reflections from Donna Strickland, 3rd Woman Ever to Win Nobel in Physics

January 15, 2019 | Article

The winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics says scientists shouldn't feel pressured to do research that has economic or commercial ramifications. Science for the sake of science is more important.
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Spinning Black Holes Could Open Up Gentle Portals for Hypersonic Spacecraft

January 09, 2019 | Article

Feel like visiting another star system or dimension? You can do this by traveling through a spacetime portal of a black hole. But you better choose carefully. All black holes are not created equal.
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