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Scientists Found Weed at an Ancient Altar From Biblical Times

Photo of Tel Arad fortress from Wikipedia, public domain Article by Becky Ferreira, VICE A sanctuary called the “Holy of Holies” offers “the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East.” Who was the Kingdom of Judah’s pot dealer? The Kingdom of Judah, an...

Climate Change And Deforestation Mean Earth’s Trees Are Younger And Shorter

Photo by Circe Denyer from PublicDomainPictures.net, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Nathan Rott, NPR The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research published in the journal Science finds. Older,...

Cannabis shown to be more effective than hydroxychloroquine

Photo from piqsels.com, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Rick Bakas, Flowsent In the race to find a cure for COVID-19, a team of Canadian scientists have found at least thirteen strains of cannabis shown to be effective against the coronavirus. The President of the United States of...

Pentagon declassifies leaked ‘UFO’ videos

Footage courtesy of the United States Navy Article by Alan Yuhas, NY Times The Department of Defense confirmed what seekers of extraterrestrial life have long hoped to be true: They’re real. At least, these three videos are. What the videos show? The government isn’t so sure there. On Monday, the...

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

Photo from https://pxhere.com/en/photo/604358, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press (via Yahoo! News) An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New...