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At the five-year mark after legalization of cannabis, a look at what research tells us about the upsides and downsides for public health. As retailers made it easier to buy cannabis, hospitalization numbers ticked upward. When Canada legalized the use of cannabis in October 2018 after decades of prohibition, the …

Eclipses that temporarily hide the sun offer a unique opportunity for scientists to study how sunlight affects the ionosphere. Eclipses offer a unique opportunity for scientists to study how sunlight affects the ionosphere. While viewers across North America will be looking up at the spectacle of two different kinds of …

The Psyche mission — named after the asteroid it’s planning to study — is set to blast off this week from Cape Canaveral, Fla., where it will begin a six-year journey to its home in the asteroid belt. If we could mine the asteroid, it could be worth $10,000 quadrillion …

Found in southern Alberta in an area where dinosaur fossils are uncommon, “Calli” is the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s third largest dinosaur skull. ‘Calli’ specimen is most preserved, nearly complete triceratops skull known from Canada. After seven years of work, the best preserved and most complete triceratops skull coming from Canada …

A European Union climate monitoring agency has found that last month was the hottest September ever recorded, coming in at 1.75 C above the pre–industrial average. But more concerning is that 2023 is on track to become the hottest year on record. ‘No one has ever seen climate monitoring data …

A large, fierce-looking marine reptile with a mouthful of pointy teeth that made its home about 80 million years ago in Vancouver Island waters could soon become British Columbia’s official fossil emblem.  Puntledge River elasmosaur fossils were first discovered on Vancouver Island in 1988. A large, fierce-looking marine reptile with …

The Atlantic Ocean off Canada’s East Coast experienced an “unprecedented” marine heat wave this summer. Surface temperatures reached record highs across the region — including a huge weeklong spike off Newfoundland that averaged 6.7 degrees above normal.  DFO scientist reviewed sea surface temperatures in satellite data dating back 4 decades. …

Scientists Pierre Agostini of Ohio State University, Ferenc Krausz of Munich University and Anne L’Huilleir of Lund University in Sweden were honoured with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”  The Nobel prizes will …

Scientists’ reverse-engineering of ancient buildings has revealed some impressive properties, like the ability to get stronger over time and ‘heal’ cracks when they form.  Modern concrete has strength but not endurance. Scientists are learning what Maya and Rome got right. In the quest to build better for the future, some …

A puffin pokes its head out of its nest in Elliston. (Submitted by Mark Gray) The volunteers who rescue Atlantic puffin chicks — called “pufflings” — knew something was wrong when so few strays from the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula showed up this summer. The fledglings …