Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit the surface of Earth and drastically changed the Earth’s geological landscape. While this asteroid is widely believed to have wiped out the entire dinosaur population that once roamed the planet, scientists now theorize that the asteroid could also have momentarily liquefied the surface of the Earth.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 15 million babies are born preterm each year. Nearly a million babies die due to preterm birth complications, making preterm birth a leading cause of child death. On top of that, survivors of preterm births often develop learning, visual or auditory disabilities.
According to a recent study, women who stay in the home are more likely to be infected with mosquito-borne diseases than their male counterparts who do not stay home.
When you looked up into the sky this past Monday, Nov. 14, did you notice anything particularly strange? Perhaps the moon looked a lot bigger than usual? In fact, scientists predicted that our moon was its largest relative to Earth in almost 69 years. Informally, astronomers and scientists alike have coined the name “beaver moon” for this astronomical wonder that lit up the sky.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking kills approximately 480,000 Americans each year, including nearly 50,000 deaths from secondhand smoke. On average, smokers die about 10 years earlier than nonsmokers. As such, lawmakers, public health officials and advocacy groups all around the world have been pushing to reduce the rates of smoking. Many nations require that health warnings must be printed on cigarette packs and several countries have mandated that graphic images must be printed on the packs as well.
Michael McCloskey is a Hopkins researcher in the cognitive science department who studies individuals with learning disabilities or other cognitive impairments. He works to identify exactly where an individual’s mental processes differ from the norm.
The placebo effect, a phenomenon that occurs when a fake treatment results in a significant reduction in pain, is a commonly observed effect in pain treatment trials, especially for those who suffer from chronic pain.
The Journal of the American Medicine Association published a study that linked a binocular iPad game to treatment of amblyopia in children. Amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, affects three percent of people in the U.S. and is the primary reason for monocular visual impairment in children.
Artificial pancreas projects soon to be released
As the most abundant element on the planet, carbon has consistently demonstrated its incredible diversity and seemingly infinite potential applications. In fact, a recent report by a team of chemists and engineers of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has described the synthesis of a new, versatile material they call “diamond nanothread” (DNT).
A recent article published in Astronomy & Astrophysics found the farthest very high energy gamma source detected to date. About seven billion years ago, an explosion occurred at a black hole in the center of a galaxy.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is national award designed to recognize students with exceptional promise in research in a STEM field. Every undergraduate university in the United States may nominate four undergraduates.
Excited for an extra hour of sleep? A recent study suggests that maybe we should reconsider turning back our clocks this November.
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have repurposed spinach as a form of terrorism-prevention technology. ‘
According to a new study published by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, male birth control was tested for the first time. A new way of preventing pregnancies, these “birth control shots” were given to sexually active males.
Studying mitochondrial DNA may be the key to unlocking autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk. New research suggests that mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) may correlate with neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD.
A fossil hunter in East Sussex, England dug up a seemingly plain and ordinary brown pebble that has now officially been confirmed as fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur in 2004. Although it took more than a decade for scientists to categorize the fossil, the tissue is the first fossilized dinosaur brain matter that has ever been discovered.
