By Heidi Harley

science / science - 6 years ago

US says no radiation released in steam leak at nuclear site

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — No airborne radiation was detected after steam escaped Friday from a tunnel containing radioactive waste at a former nuclear weapons production site in Washington state, U.S. officials said, the second problem with aging tunnels at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in a year.

science / science - 6 years ago

New research, October 15-21, 2018

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Climate change communication From climates multiple to climate singular: Maintaining policy-relevance in the IPCC synthesis report Audience Segments in Environmental and Science Communication: Recent Findi...

science / science - 6 years ago

Millions with high blood sugar face TB risk

Millions of people with high blood sugar may be at greater risk of tuberculosis than previously thought, scientists said Friday, warning that diabetes and TB could combine to create the "perfect storm" of disease. Tuberculosis, a severe infection caused by bacteria in the lungs, kills almost as man...

science / science - 6 years ago

No Wonder Scientists Ask Statisticians to Cook the Data

When statisticians responded to a survey about the kinds of requests they received from biomedical scientists, a number of them reported “inappropriate requests” like throwing out or ignoring inconvenient data points and otherwise finding ways to make things look like the scientist got a desired res...