A growing share of Americans, especially in rural areas, are losing access to reproductive health care. At the same time, American women are dying during or after pregnancy at higher…
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Exposure to neighborhood violence leads some Denver teens to use tobacco and alcohol earlier, new study shows
High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol and tobacco, according to our recent study. In the U.S.,…
Viewpoint: India needs to refine its view of the benefits and limits of crop biotechnology
This year’s Nobel laureates in Economics affirm that the future of growth models will be driven by innovation. This is both a challenge and an opportunity, and resonates deeply with…
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)
BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of…
LZ Dark Matter Experiment Sets a World’s Best and Spots Neutrinos From the Sun’s Core
Newswise — There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe, is hiding all…
Trucked-in honeybees may edge out bigger bumblebee foragers
Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition when people bring their honeybees to the floral feast. When beekeepers truck their…
Reading Habits Predict Hidden Biases Toward Autism
Summary: A new study shows that the newspapers people read are strong predictors of their automatic, unconscious biases toward autism—even after accounting for age, education, political views, and personal experience.…
1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs of life, report says
The first astronauts to set foot on Mars should hunt for signs of past or present Red Planet life. That’s the overarching conclusion of an in-depth report about human Mars…
Archaeologists use lasers to locate ancient settlements on Greek Islands
A multi-national team of archaeologists are using LIDAR laser scanning and magnetometry to locate settlements and artefacts buried beneath the surface across Greece’s Cyclades islands. The “Small Cycladic Islands Project”…
Versailles excavation reveals new insights into the Queen’s and Dauphin’s courts
Archaeological excavations at the Palace of Versailles have revealed the complex architectural evolution of the Queen’s and Dauphin’s Courts. The Palace of Versailles was commissioned by King Louis XIV, in…
