Marijuana use is becoming ever-more mainstream, with two states now allowing recreational use of the drug. From pot's mythical origins to false positives in baby urine, read on for some of the odder facts about this drug.
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Weird and mysterious radio signals coming from outer space often are followed by claims of "aliens did it." That's likely not the case, says one astrophysicist.
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Is the octopus in the parking garage climate change's canary in the coal mine?
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Some families need to avoid talk of Trump and Clinton at all costs. Live Science is here to help.
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A bubbling flood of molasses that sent a towering wave of goo down the streets of Boston in 1919, and now scientists have figured out why it was so deadly.
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A new way of getting information into light waves could mean faster fiber-optics.
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It may sound like a mutant superhero power, but a tiny, eyeless roundworm has a new type of light-detecting cell in its eye. And the photoreceptor is 50 times more efficient at capturing light than its counterpart in the human eye is, a new study finds.
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Simulations of quarks and gluons show strange spinning twisters and spokes.
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Though some people may be wary of a poop collection, the fossils are hard as a rock and don't smell.
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On YouTube's "The Brain Scoop," host Emily Graslie bring the Field Museum's collection treasures and scientific research to light.
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