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Southern Nevada residents may have caught wind of a toxic rock.
Nutrition is key to looking and feeling well, but what about thinking well?
Like many college students, freshman Maggie Koo always gets her flu shot, and this year was no exception.
Parents of premature infants are already concerned about their baby’s health, and they may now have another worry. Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers discovered that plastics used to treat premature babies, or preemies, contain levels of a chemical called DEHP up to 160,000 times the safe amount. The finding means doctors might need to find alternative products to save our littlest patients.
Teachers tell students that math will be useful later in life, but did they know it would be useful at the gas station? A group of Hopkins scientists have developed a mathematical model to estimate how much of a gasoline droplet will infiltrate concrete or evaporate into the air. The model shows that small droplets, which occur frequently during refueling, could damage our environment and our community.
For the past two months, junior Mengli Shi has hauled giant white trash bags filled with cereal boxes, plastic bottles and aluminum cans across the street. She lives in The Marylander Apartments at 3501 St. Paul St., which doesn’t have a recycling program for its residents. But a bill that Governor Martin O’Malley signed will require apartment complexes in the state to have recycling bins by Nov. 1.
Imagine you’re sitting at Starbucks, absorbed in a textbook, studying for exams. The faint blip of a barista dropping an empty cup may not draw your attention, but the crash of a mug on the floor probably will. Researchers, led by Hopkins neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences assistant professor Shreesh Mysore, discovered some clues as to how the brain decides where to direct attention. The group says their findings could help people with attention deficit disorder, autism and schizophrenia.