Some CBD extracts are totally legal, DEA confirms
Agency says it still wants to expand cannabis research and notes that CBD is now legal.
Science // Science & Exploration
SpaceX scrubs Starhopper test flight on Monday evening [Updated]
For their safety, local residents were advised to go outside during the test.
Behind the scenes at Earth’s most beautiful rocket launch site
Rocket Lab's Launch Complex-1 is not easy to get to—but the views are worth any lost sleep.
Why the NFL’s field goal record is waiting to be smashed
"It almost feels like butter off your foot... that ball just flew."
Tracking online hate groups reveals why they’re resilient to bans
When Facebook kicked the KKK, it re-formed on a Russia-based social network.
Deadly superbug outbreak in humans linked to antibiotic spike in cows
Use of certain antibiotics in cattle increased 41% just before the outbreak.
Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says [Updated]
That's a 60% rise in cases in five days; CDC has since reported even more probable cases.
Sun’s solar wind recreated in lab with aid of Big Red Ball
Laboratory model of solar wind may improve space weather forecasts.
Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
CDC wants more data and faster reporting before the next wave of cases hits.
Tiny robot leaps around carrying its own battery, electronics
Less than 100 millimeters across, a trefoil-shaped robot can walk, hop, or leap.
Humans may have reached Europe by 210,000 years ago
By 40,000 years later, Neanderthals had taken over the site.
Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels
Pollution from coal and biomass burning blocks 13% of solar electricity.
Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin
It takes the Apollo Guidance Computer 10 seconds to compute a single hash value.
Buzz Aldrin is looking forward, not back—and he has a plan to bring NASA along
"There has to be a better way of doing things. And I think I’ve found it.”
Space-based gravitational-wave detector may detect strange exoplanets
Large objects orbiting white dwarf binaries would be picked up by the LISA project.
