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Bipartisan Effort Demands DEA Action on Marijuana Scheduling

Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning these are “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” However, a team of 21 bipartisan congressional leaders from both the Senate and House of Representatives hopes to change that as they recently sent a ...

Interstellar Ingenuity: How Voyager 1's Mission Team Solved the Puzzle

NASA’s Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object ever sent into space with a current approximate distance of 15 billion miles from Earth having been in space for almost 47 years. Over that amount of time, it’s only natural that things break, and ...

Unveiling Earth's Ancient Shield: A 3.7-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Record

How long has the Earth’s magnetic field existed? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth hopes to address as a team of international researchers discovered evidence indicating that the Earth’s magnetic ...

Impact of Antarctic Environmental Changes on North Atlantic Sea Level Rise

How could temperature increase in Antarctic deep-sea water contribute to rising sea levels around the world? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a team of international researchers discovered that human-caused ...

Vasuki: An Ancient Snake that was Longer Than a Bus

Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus. Fossils and fossil comparisons have revealed the characteristics of this huge creature, which is estimated to have weighed as much as 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) and been from 36 feet (11 ...

Revealing Io: Juno Mission Unveils Stunning Features of Jupiter's Moon

Jupiter’s first Galilean moon, Io, is the most volcanically active planetary body in the entire solar system with hundreds of volcanoes erupting hundreds of miles into space. Aside from the volcanoes, Io also boasts a myriad of volcanic lakes and mountains ...

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