Category: News
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NASA to Inflate Heat Shield on Earth Before Spaceflight Demo
NASA is inviting media to see a technology that could one day help land humans on Mars after it is inflated for the final time on Earth before its spaceflight demonstration later this year. The event will take place beginning 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 15, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The…
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Fixing Spinal Cord Injuries With ‘Dancing Molecules’
Paralyzed mice “walk” again after new treatment created with the aid of the Advanced Photon Source. The Science A new injectable therapy for spinal cord injuries uses specially engineered molecules that trigger a healing response in spinal cells. The research team used X-ray characterization at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). This allowed the researchers to…
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Daily News Weekend Wrap Up to Premiere This Coming Weekend. Sneak peak today!
The Weekend Wrap Up returns this Saturday. This show is a wrap up and revisit of stories covered by STM Daily News and TNC Network from the previous weeks prior. Usually there is an update or recap of those stories. There will also be some new stories that were not previously. covered by Daily News.…
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How Buildings Contribute to Urban Heating during Heat Waves
A bottom-up approach quantifies the contributions of human-caused heating from building energy The Science Previous research has found that heat waves and urban heat island effects reinforce each other’s effects. These heat islands are concentrations of buildings, paved areas, and other surfaces that absorb and retain heat. Emissions of heat from buildings are an important…
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Abbott Announces Development of Novel Continuous Glucose-Ketone Monitoring System
Abbott is designing a first-of-its-kind biowearable that will enable people with diabetes to continuously monitor glucose and ketones in one sensor Device promises to redefine care for people with diabetes who are at risk for developing a life-threatening complication called diabetic ketoacidosis ABBOTT PARK, Ill., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it’s developing…
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JHU Expert: How Parents Can Help Children Cope After School Shootings
We need to do more to stop gun violence that affects children every day in this country. But in the meantime, parents are the most important sources of safety and comfort for their children, says Johns Hopkins School of Nursing professor, Deborah Gross. “While we can’t always protect our children from feeling frightened or sad, there…
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Seattle Democracy Vouchers Increase Donations, Number of Candidates in City Elections
Each odd-year election cycle since 2017, four $25 democracy vouchers have arrived in the mail for registered voters in Seattle. Each voucher can be donated to a single campaign for city office or dispersed to separate campaigns. According to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, or SEEC, the goals of the democracy voucher program are…
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Putin Masking Invasion Policies with 1990s Humanitarian Propaganda, Finds Extensive Analysis
A Russia-NATO expert analyses foreign policy statements from the USSR collapse, until the current day, to provide new insight Newswise — Russia is reinventing decades-old propaganda based on supposed humanitarian principles to justify its invasion of Ukraine, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal, The International Spectator. Carried out by an expert on Russia-NATO relations,…
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As Gun Deaths Surge, Researchers Focus on Experiences of Community Violence Interventionists
Landmark study reveals extreme levels of exposure to violence, risk of being shot for street outreach workers Newswise — EVANSTON, Ill. — Sixty percent of violence intervention workers in Chicago have witnessed a shooting attempt, 32 percent have witnessed someone else get shot while at work, 20 percent have been shot at while at work,…
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A 50% Reduction in Emissions by 2030 Can be Achieved. Here’s How
Energy analysts pooled their knowledge to provide recommendations to fulfill the United States’ climate pledge Newswise — The United States has set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50% by 2030. Are we on track to succeed? A new study by a team of scientists and policy analysts from across the…