SOUTHERN SIBERIA. Scientists have found the earliest direct evidence that people used cannabis for its mind-altering effects, and it comes from drug testing the dead. An international team recovered more than 1,400 cannabis seeds and chemical traces of psychoactive compounds in preserved human hair inside Tunnug 1, a monumental royal tomb in southern Siberia's Uyuk Valley, pushing the timeline of intentional cannabis use back...
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The Karowe Mine in Botswana discovered the Lesedi La Rona, the world's second-largest diamond. Dazzling in size at an extraordinary 1,109 carats, this near-colorless...
In a groundbreaking shift, smartphones have now overtaken televisions as the primary screen for watching new video content. In this respect, the screen of...
Underneath a cerulean cloak of Atlantic blue, miles off the coast of Southport, N.C., researchers have opened a space-trafficking station on prehistoric prisoners. It...
North Korea executed a 22-year-old man for secretly listening to K-pop, an unprecedented punishment under a new crackdown by Kim Jong Un on Southern...