Smoking Marijuana Less Damaging to Lungs Than Cigarettes
Given that tobacco smokers on average smoke 30 cigarettes per day, it is no surprise that pot smokers would experience less lung damage than cigarette…
Given that tobacco smokers on average smoke 30 cigarettes per day, it is no surprise that pot smokers would experience less lung damage than cigarette…
In a development that could end up saving the lives of soldiers traumatically injured on the battlefield, engineers from MIT have developed a spray coating…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needs stronger, lighter, and more resilient materials that can be used in any number of applications from armor to…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
A European Space Agency-led mission in combination with the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal new images of the Large and Small…
In an effort to learn how their technology will react to the hellish surface conditions on Venus, NASA engineers will put together a 12-ton toxic…
Octopuses have found a novel way of beating the frigid temperatures of the Antarctic waters by using RNA editing to customize crucial nervous system proteins,…
Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers – including undergraduate and graduate students – studied…
According to a newly published study, many autistic children harbor Sutterella bacteria in their digestive tract, contrary to non-autistic children. While this research provides a…
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned to Hawaii to study the Kilauea volcano. Mounted under NASA’s…
The Cornell CAC has recently received an award for excellence in the field of high performance computing. The award was given to them from the…
NASA’s RXTE has made many important scientific observations over its 16-year history and on January 4th, 2012 it sent its last observation to the ground…
It seems that inefficiency isn’t always a bad thing. Recent research shows that dynein, a motor protein, has a “strut” like motion instead of the…
There are quite a few challenges for cosmologists trying to discover evidence of what it was like early in the life of our universe, but…
While you might just need a pencil and your brain to fill in this week’s Sudoku puzzle, an Irish mathematician used millions of hours of…
How does the human brain recognize faces and distinguish between genuine faces and objects that resemble faces? A new study by Professor Pawan Sinha at…
Incredibly thin and strong, graphene—a one atom think densely packed honeycomb crystal lattice of carbon atoms—has many fascinating properties. Now scientists at The University of…
As testing continues on the next deep space exploration vehicle, Orion received its final drop test in what was a series of worst-case landing scenarios…