Kids Eating Habits, Video Games Helping Kids Eat Fruits and Veggies, New Ways to Stop Weight Gain in Young Adults, and More in the Obesity News Source
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Pinellas County a Model for Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance, Scientists Unravel the Genetic Evolution of Zika Virus, Worm Infection Counters Inflammatory Bowel Disease and more in the Infectious Diseases News Source
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Suicide bomber attack in brussels kills dozens. ISS claims responsibility. Cities around the world ramp up security. Experts needed for media.
Today, Wednesday, March 16th, President Obama said he would nominate Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice. Experts needed for media inquiries.
Speeding Recovery From Cyber-Induced Blackouts, Teaching with 'Big Data', Security Breach in 3-D Printing Process, and more in the Newswise Cybersecurity News Source.
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In findings presented last week at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas, scientists identified the fossil remains of rats the size of small dogs found on the Indonesian island of Timor. According to archeological evidence from the area, humans (who were present in Timor starting at least 46,000 years ago) regularly hunted and butchered these megafauna.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today.
In a deal linking the old and the new, NASA is officially partnering with the Houston Airport System to develop the commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport.
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology successfully fabricate a metamaterial using a lotus leaf as a template.
Using computer models, researchers from the University of Bristol found that the feeding style and dietary preferences of dinosaurs was closely linked to how wide they could open their jaws. In the case of the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex, they could open their jaws wide, up to 90 degrees.
The National Council on Teacher Quality today released "State of the States 2015: Evaluating Teaching, Leading and Learning,” which provides a lay of the land on state teacher and principal evaluation policy in 2015.
According to a surprising new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, a decades-long decline in the death rate of middle-aged white Americans (age 45 to 54) has reversed in recent years. The causes are not the big killers such as heart disease and diabetes but an epidemic of suicides and substance abuse. The study was done by Nobel-winning researchers Angus Deaton and Anne Case of Princeton University.
An archeological site in Jersey, UK has yielded a stash of artifacts from the end of the last Ice Age. The fragments include stone pieces engraved with criss-crossed lines, possibly made over 14,000 years ago. Initial reports determine that these were made by the Magdalenians, a hunter-gatherer culture which gradually re-colonised Europe at the end of the Ice Age, 16,000 to 13,000 years ago.
Possibly due to excessive wet weather, a fissure in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains has grown to the size of nearly seven acres. Estimate to its size runs approximately 750 metres long and 50 metres wide.
In a research lab in Germany, researchers are preparing to switch on a 52-foot wide fusion device called a stellarator, that could change the game in fusion energy.
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According to research led by University of Toronto and published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a close encounter with Jupiter approximately 4 billion years ago may have resulted in another giant planet’s ejection from the Solar System.
Strong rain caused by El Nino in Chile's Atacama desert treated us to a beautiful flower show.
According to a study led by MIT, Volkswagen's emissions cheat on their diesel vehicles will cause 60 people in the U.S. To die 10 to 20 years prematurely.
Much to their surprise, Scientists from the Rosetta mission say they have detected significant amounts of molecular oxygen coming out of a comet. This unexpected find may have implications for understanding how the solar system formed.
Engineers in Bristol have developed a system that manipulate small objects without touching them, using "holograms" made of sound waves. The technology could be used to one day deliver medicine.
In a study published in the journal Obesity, researchers from Touro University prove that just by replacing processed sugar, a group of obese children's health improved in 9 days.
According to a study published the journal Nature Climate Change, by 2100, parts of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could be life threatening.
Men living in highly gender equal societies have better quality of life than men in less gender equal societies, according to new research from Øystein Gullvåg Holter.
According to a University of British Columbia study, only four percent of the ocean lies within marine protected areas. Their research was published in the journal Oryx.
Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures. If the researchers blocked a central switch in epileptic mice, the frequency and severity of the seizures decreased. Using a novel technology, it was possible to observe the processes prior to the occurrence of epileptic seizures in living animals. The results are now being published in the journal "Nature Communications."
Joy Milne, a woman from Perth, Scotland with a very sensitive nose, can recognize the odor of the onset of Parkinson's Disease before symptoms are observed.
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 11 cases have been reported in the United States since April 1st, 2015.
After scientists led by NASA publish a study in the journal Earth and Space Science, the U.S. Geological Survey issues statement that raises doubts on the studies earthquake forecasts for the greater Los Angeles area.
"God does not play dice," Albert Einstein once quipped. A study published in Nature gives the strongest refutation to date of Albert Einstein's principle of "local realism," which says that the universe obeys laws, not chance, and that there is no communication faster than light.
The American Cancer Society has issued new recommendations on when women should get mammograms and how frequently they should get them. This is in contrast to the previous guidelines which stated that women should get them at age 40.
According to a large study of dog DNA from around the world, the first domestic dog originated in Central Asia around 15,000 years ago.
Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science Festival in Bradford.
Reporting in the journal Pediatrics, any amount of alcohol consumed by the expecting mother can cause fetal alcohol syndrome.
In research presented at IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, researchers, from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory suggest an algorithm can predict human intuition better than us humans.
The WHO report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides the first results of a long-term study on male Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone.
Researchers studying traditional societies found that they average about 6.5 hours per night.
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