Mountain Watch, California On dozens of nights every year, NASA sends a jumbo jet carrying a 2.five-metre telescope into the sky. As it flies above substantially of the Earth’s environment, this one-of-a-kind observatory—a US–German partnership acknowledged as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)—peers into the hearts of new child […]
Lung Cancer Screen Could Be Easy-pee-sy
Envision acquiring screened for early-phase lung most cancers just by getting a deep breath from an inhaler, and then peeing into a cup. Sangeeta Bhatia, a professor of health sciences and engineering at M.I.T., described how that could possibly be attainable in a TED talk she gave in 2016: Bhatia: […]
Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-Era Pass in Norway’s Mountains
The mountains northwest of Oslo are some of Europe’s greatest, and they are covered with snow through the 12 months. Norwegians get in touch with them the Jotunheimen, this means the home of the jötnar—the giants of Norse mythology. But several years of warm climate have now melted considerably of […]
How screen-based technologies are impacting school students
Kid’s studying and wellbeing are being impacted by obtain to electronic know-how. Credit: Shutterstock The first in a collection of Rising Up Digital Australia reports by the Gonski Institute for Education and learning at UNSW Sydney paints a worrying image of transformed studying conditions in Australian universities. Nicely in advance […]
Weird Neutrino Behavior Could Explain Longstanding Antimatter Mystery
We could be a huge step nearer to cracking just one of the universe’s most significant and most basic mysteries. Researchers feel that, when the universe was born virtually 14 billion many years back, it contained equivalent amounts of make a difference and its bizarro counterpart, antimatter. Antimatter particles have the […]
Effectiveness of Homemade Fabric Masks to Protect Others from Spread of COVID-19 Examined in New Rapid Response to Government from Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases
A new swift professional consultation from a standing committee of the Countrywide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Drugs responds to questions from the White Residence Business of Science and Engineering Policy (OSTP) relating to the performance of do-it-yourself cloth masks to shield some others from the viral spread of COVID-19 […]
DOD Biological Threat Reduction Program Should Be Part of a New Interagency Mechanism to Coordinate Efforts to Prevent Biological Threats, Including Natural Disease Outbreaks – Report Offers Five-Year Strategy for BTRP
Over the next five decades, the U.S. Office of Defense’s Organic Menace Reduction System (BTRP) need to really encourage and be between co-leaders in the federal government’s development of an enduring interagency mechanism to tackle an array of organic threats – such as pure disease outbreaks, accidental releases, and intentional […]
Molecular & isotopic evidence of milk, meat & plants in prehistoric food systems
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from the University of Florida, provide the first evidence for diet and subsistence practices of ancient East African pastoralists. The development of pastoralism is known to have transformed human diets and societies in grasslands worldwide. Cattle-herding has been […]
Online education platforms could scale high-quality STEM education for universities
Average instructor compensation per 1000 students with in-person, blended and online instruction for EM and CMT courses at 129 Russian higher education institutions. Credit: Chirikov, et. al., Online and blended (online and in-person) STEM instruction can produce the same learning outcomes for students as traditional, in-person classes at a fraction […]
Katie Collins, Vaishnavi Phadnis, and Vaibhavi Shah named 2020-21 Goldwater Scholars
MIT students Katie Collins, Vaishnavi Phadnis, and Vaibhavi Shah have been selected to receive a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for the 2020-21 academic year. Over 5,000 college students from across the United States were nominated for the scholarships, from which only 396 recipients were selected based on academic merit. The Goldwater […]
Apollo 13 at 50 Years: Looking Back at the Mission’s Lost Lunar Science
Had everything gone to plan, NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the moon would have deployed a pallet of science instruments and brought back samples from humanity’s first visit to the lunar uplands. Instead, 50 years ago this month, Apollo 13 “had a problem.” An oxygen tank that had […]