Scientists want to understand how commercially available cannabis products affect users. They have to get creative to research it legally.

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Around the world, many communities value the night sky for practical or cultural reasons.

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By observing the cosmos, Indigenous peoples precisely measured natural phenomena like solar eclipses, leap years, and El Niño.

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A van outfitted as a mobile laboratory helps scientists study how legal cannabis products affect users—without breaking the law.

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Aging often looks very different for different people.

Aditi Gurkar joins us to discuss a new study that identified certain metabolites as reliable markers of biological age and the implications of better understanding a person’s biological age.

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Salps are small, transparent, barrel-shaped jelly creatures. Each night, they form chains and swim in corkscrews to reach the ocean’s surface.

Dr. Kelly Sutherland, from Sutherland Lab, joins us to discuss her work studying salp swimming patterns.

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For thousands of years, Indigenous communities in Guatemala have used observations and mathematics to track astronomical events.

Willy Barreno, a Maya calendar keeper, and astronomer Dr. Isabel Hawkins join us to talk about the astronomical ceremony.

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A wind utility company in Wyoming is trying to make wind turbines more visible to birds by painting just one blade black.

Will Walkey joins us to discuss his report on wind turbines for Wyoming Public Radio.

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While the US was known for its railroads in the 1800s, we’ve fallen behind places on high-speed trains.

Rod Diridon Sr. US High Speed Rail joins us to discuss the current state of faster passenger rail in the US and what challenges it still faces.

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In her new book, Jessica J. Lee traces the history of how we moved plants around and asks: what does it mean to be a plant out of place, and how does the movement of plants mirror our own?

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