At-home drug disposal products can play an important role in keeping rural Coloradans safe

Some Coloradans have a drug problem: old prescription medications clogging their medicine cabinets. Disposing of unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs is important to protect children and teens from accidental or…

Black moms and pregnant women forced out of their homes in metro Detroit face health and safety threats

Is everyone entitled to a fair process before being forced out of their home? The state of Michigan says “yes,” but the reality is often very different and the consequences…

Does my kid have COVID-19 or just a cold? A pediatric nurse explains how to tell – and why it matters

Fall and winter mark the peak season for common respiratory infections such as COVID-19; respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV; influenza, better known as the flu; and the common cold. These…

Divers investigate submerged medieval town lost beneath the North Sea

Divers have documented a series of submerged structures belonging to Shipden, a medieval settlement off the Norfolk coast that disappeared beneath the North Sea around 700 years ago. Shipden was…

Viewpoint: Dubious environmental fears: Why the AI buildout is critical to America’s ecological future

Opposition to artificial intelligence has intensified over the past year. A majority of Americans worry that AI will kill jobs, distrust the information it generates, and doubt that tech leaders…

Designing Detector Technologies for Particles — and Fraud

BYLINE: Karen McNulty Walsh Newswise — Finding clues to discoveries in the particles streaming from collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a nuclear physics research facility under construction at…

Separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could decrease access for Colorado parents

Some parents in Colorado are uncertain about the safety and necessity of vaccines given to their children. They also question how the vaccines are timed. I am a sociologist who…

Nepal flood destruction shows “limits to adaptation”, scientists say

There is very little authorities in Nepal could have done to prevent the deaths and devastation caused by the flash flood on its border with Tibet in late August, scientists…

Space weather caused a 16-minute train delay in 1848. ‘Our research has a hint of a detective story’

Detective work by a team of space-weather experts has discovered the truth about a historical event that had been thought to be the first-ever case of technological disruption by geomagnetic…

Pre-Hispanic ‘dice’ unearthed at settlement of Peru’s ‘cloud warriors’

A mysterious stone object resembling an ancient Andean dice has been unearthed at a Chachapoya settlement in Peru, raising intriguing questions about games, rituals and everyday life among the people…