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Simulation may illuminate safer cannabinoid drugs

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may still have pharmaceutical value if researchers could nail down the causes of those side effects. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2000 Words for Japanese Rain

From artist Miya Ando, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words . Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls,

A fear of betrayal shared by Japan and Europe

In Europe, we are afraid that Donald Trump’s America may be selling us out to Russia. In Japan, where I have just been, the fear is of Trump selling them out to China. For Europe and Japan the shared danger is of the superpowers, especially the United States and China, getting

Collapse of two buildings in Morocco's Fes kills 22

The collapse of two buildings killed 22 people in the northern Moroccan city of Fes, authorities said Wednesday, in the deadliest accident of its kind in the kingdom in recent years. The Fes prosecutor's office said in a statement the collapse occurred after 11:00 pm (2200