The risks of staring directly into laser ideas are nicely documented, but an regrettable incident involving a teenager from Ohio serves as a sobering reminder of just how minimal it normally takes to trigger long term destruction to your eyes and vision. In a new health care report, medical […]
Month: September 2020
Life on Venus? Breakthrough Initiatives Funds Study of Possible Biosignature
The detection of a possible indicator of daily life in Venus’ clouds is just the beginning. On Monday (Sept. fourteen), scientists introduced that they’d noticed the fingerprint of phosphine in Venus’ environment, at an altitude wherever temperatures and pressures are related to individuals below on Earth at sea degree. On our world, phosphine […]
Stephen Hinshaw Receives National Academy of Medicine’s Sarnat Award for Contributions to Understanding and Treating Mental Health Conditions in Childhood and Adolescence and Stigma Prevention Efforts
The National Academy of Drugs right now declared Stephen P. Hinshaw is the receiver of the 2020 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Well being, for fundamental and utilized study on persons with externalizing conditions, and for attempts to minimize mental illness stigma by way of youth-based mostly […]
COVID-19 Dreams, Synchronicity and Visitors from Another Solar System
Have you been sleeping perfectly this yr? If not, you’re not on your own. Nightmares about COVID-19—fears of remaining in crowded spaces, touching germy surfaces, sensation uncovered devoid of a mask—have been disturbing the snooze of folks all around the globe. The pandemic appears to have launched a new shared […]
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden
Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its one hundred seventy five-yr history. This yr we are compelled to do so. We do not do this evenly. The evidence and the science display that Donald Trump has badly destroyed the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and […]
Global learning: Educational research in an emerging field
In this paper, I will reflect upon the implications of today’s survival risks for humanity and the planet Earth and the challenges for education related to them. I call the contribution to these learning challenges ‘global learning’ and consider it as a central area of educational research for the future, […]
This ‘Small World’ Is Packed with Animated Beauty
In 1665 British scientist Robert Hooke printed his e book Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made with Magnifying Eyeglasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. It was 1 of the initially scientific operates to illustrate vegetation, insects and animals via the lens of a microscope. In the e […]
High-Elevation Hummingbirds Evolved a Temperature Trick
If a hummingbird has at any time visited your back garden, you’ve no doubt seen it flit from flower to flower, hovering mid-air, as it sips on nectar. That exercise needs plenty of power. So hummingbirds want a Good deal of nectar to feed their hungry metabolisms. “In reality some […]
Federal Agencies Should Adopt Uniform Framework for Quantifying Disaster-Related Deaths, Illness, Says New Report
To a lot more properly quantify disaster-linked fatalities, injuries, and health problems, the Federal Unexpected emergency Management Company and other agencies supporting disaster response should adopt a uniform national framework of data collection strategies and solutions for distinguishing immediate from oblique disaster fatalities, states a new congressionally mandated report from […]
Improving Health Outcomes for Sickle Cell Disease Care Requires Comprehensive Team-Based Care, New Payment Models, and Addressing Institutional Racism in Health
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication supplies a blueprint and eight overarching strategies for enhancing health care for the roughly 100,000 persons in the United States residing with sickle cell disease (SCD).
International Transportation Research Relationship Formed Between TRB and PANAMSTR in Latin America
The U.S.-based Transportation Investigate Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Drugs (NASEM) has formed a cooperative knowledge with the Colombia-based Sociedad Panamericana de Investigación en Transporte y Logística (Pan-American Culture of Transportation Investigate, PANAMSTR).