science / science - 6 years ago
Diplomats who sustained mysterious brain injuries while stationed in Cuba experienced a cluster of symptoms, including anxiety, mental fog and dizziness, that is more complex than previously reported, scientists said Wednesday. The problem began in the fall of 2016, when diplomatic personnel residi...
science / science - 6 years ago
This year, scientists announced an incredible discovery by looking at poop stains in satellite images — 1.5 million Adélie penguins were living and thriving on a little patch in Antarctica surrounded by treacherous sea ice called the Danger Islands. It all started when a group of researchers spent...
science / science - 6 years ago
After Christy Pugh and her husband, Dave Splan, lost their 6-year-old daughter Emma to complications from the flu last year, they're taking every measure to remind parents how important it is to give your children the flu vaccine. Emma was one of the 185 children to pass away from the flu in th...
science / science - 6 years ago
You're boarding up a broken window, but your personal data is still inside that sketchy house.
science / science - 6 years ago
Seth Berkley, chief executive of the GAVI vaccines alliance, said his agency was now focusing on how to get vaccines to people in rural areas, those isolated by war and refugees. GAVI uses its funding by private philanthropies and government donors to negotiate down vaccine prices for poorer nation...
science / science - 6 years ago
Labor unrest is the latest complication in Amazon’s plan to invest $2.5 billion and hire 25,000 people in the city over the next 15 years. Several New York City politicians who were shut out of negotiations handled by the governor and mayor have raised objections to a new office park in Queens that...
science / science - 6 years ago
Intel, the world's biggest maker of computing chips for personal computers and data centers, for decades followed Moore's law, named for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, by doubling the number of transistors on a chip every two years, thus roughly doubling their performance. The company said in July...
science / science - 6 years ago
The mystery of how Stonehenge’s bluestones were transported 160 miles from Wales to Wiltshire has puzzled archaeologists for generations. Some experts say glaciers picked up and deposited the huge rocks in the last ice age, while others have suggested the stones were dragged on rollers or sleds by m...
science / science - 6 years ago
While the next storm on the way for the eastern United States will be warmer when compared to last weekend's storm, it may create trouble in the South in the form of flooding as rain and thunderstorms begin late this week.
science / science - 6 years ago
Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Aframe told a federal jury in Concord, New Hampshire, at the start of a trial that the kickbacks to Christopher Clough, 45, were part of the Arizona drugmaker's overall effort to boost sales of its opioid, Subsys. Patrick Richard, Clough's lawyer, said his client had no...
science / science - 6 years ago
He attempted to do 'The Robot' but is not an actual robot, sadly.
science / science - 6 years ago
SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. (AP) — Before descending the Cascade Mountains on its final stretch to Seattle, Interstate 90 cuts through a mountain pass of old growth forests and wetlands.
science / science - 6 years ago
The annual coral spawning, one of nature’s most miraculous events, takes place every year around the October or November full moons and world renown scientists are using the event to help save the Great Barrier Reef.
science / science - 6 years ago
People who enjoy one glass of wine a day are less likely to be admitted to hospital than teetotallers, a new study suggests. Researchers said the finding show “moderate” consumption of alcohol means a lower risk of hospitalisation and of suffering heart disease. The study involving Harvard Universit...
science / science - 6 years ago
Find that sweet relief.