Lawmakers, researchers push for school phone bans citing mental health concerns Some researchers and lawmakers are calling to ban phones in schools and keep smartphones out of the hands of young people until high school. It comes amid concerning mental health trends and a look at how childhood has changed with technology. Eleventh-grader Ailen De […]
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Space junk crashing through homes. This is what local researchers are doing to prevent catastrophe
Soon, anyone launching a satellite or spacecraft will have new rules to follow. Channel 2 Action News has learned that it’s the government’s effort to control a collision or additional space junk in orbit. Recently, a piece of debris survived a re-entry from orbit and smashed through the roof of a home in Florida. Situations […]
Oh yuck! Those loud cicadas also pee like pressure washers, say researchers
Is it not enough that cicadas are the loudest bugs — rivaling the roar of a Stihl chainsaw after a hurricane? Or that they’re among the largest insects, some of them bigger than hummingbirds? Now a pair of chemical and biomolecular engineers have drawn these superlative insects into a bit of a … peeing contest. […]
Viruses are doing mysterious things everywhere – AI can help researchers understand what they’re up to in the oceans and in your gut
Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and manipulate human and bacterial cells in nearly every environment, from the oceans to your gut. But scientists don’t yet have a full picture of how viruses affect their surrounding environments in large part because of their extraordinary […]
Viruses are doing mysterious things everywhere – AI can help researchers understand what they’re up to in the oceans and in your gut
Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and manipulate human and bacterial cells in nearly every environment, from the oceans to your gut. But scientists don’t yet have a full picture of how viruses affect their surrounding environments in large part because of their extraordinary […]
Researchers discover “super fluffy” planet with cotton candy-like density
Researchers discovered a huge planet 1,200 light years from Earth with a density comparable to that of cotton candy, scientists said Monday. WASP-193b is an exoplanet, which means it’s located outside of our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy. It’s 50% larger than Jupiter — the largest planet […]
Mysterious symbols from ancient Iraq temple baffled researchers for years — until now
For over 100 years, archaeologists have been flummoxed by a set of symbols discovered at an ancient temple in Iraq — until now. An expert on Mesopotamia says he has decoded the symbols, revealing a “clever” double entendre, according to an article published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. The sequence […]
Genes known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s may actually be an inherited form of the disorder, researchers say
Alzheimer’s disease may be inherited more often than previously known, according to a new study that paints a clearer picture of a gene long known to be linked to the common form of dementia. Authors of the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, say this might even be considered a distinct, inherited form […]
Holocaust researchers use AI to search for unnamed victims
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Researchers in Israel are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to comb through piles of records to try to identify hundreds of thousands of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust whose names are missing from official memorials. More than six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Second […]
How can I give meteorologists and researchers real-time weather updates?
May 4—The National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies detail how to submit precipitation reports. 1 What is mPING app? The mobile Precipitation Identification Near the Ground “mPING” is an app users can download and report weather conditions to researchers at the NSSL. 2 What does the […]
Clarkson researchers awarded grant to study milfoil at Goose Bay, Norwood Lake
May 3—POTSDAM — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded Clarkson University researchers a three-year $69,904 grant to work on the “Milfoil Monitoring and Control Project.” The main goal of the project will be to monitor two invasive aquatic watermilfoil species in upstate New York. The research team will study Eurasian watermilfoil in Goose […]
Some people with autism, intellectual disabilities are seeking euthanasia, researchers find
Here are the top stories in health news this week from Yahoo News partners. ‘There’s no doubt in my mind these people were suffering.’ Some people who have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years cited autism or intellectual disabilities as the only reason or a major reason for seeking euthanasia, saying they […]