An animated GIF visualizing mortality from mental and substance use disorders from 1980 to 2014 by county. Credit: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
More than 2,000 US counties witnessed increases of 200% or more in deaths related to substance...
Technosphere includes physical human-made structures such as houses, factories, smartphones, computers and landfill.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Leicester
"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor Mark...
Students at Baltimore’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle School observe and take notes on their zebrafish.Credit: David Schmelick and Deirdre Hammer/JHU
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but...
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A new technique that allowed researchers to analyze genetic material from serum samples of HIV patients taken before AIDS was known provides a glimpse into the beginnings of the epidemic.
Researchers at the University of Arizona...
Nearly all Americans are likely to know a victim of gun violence within their social networks during their lifetime. Credit: Flickr/diversey
Nearly all Americans are likely to know a victim of gun violence within their social networks during their lifetime,...
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The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research.
A study by Prof Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün from The...
A combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term 'Patient Zero' and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV across North America.Credit:Flickr/iadmedia
A combination of historical...
From left, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Gaute Hagen, Thomas Papenbrock and Gustav Jansen used the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to calculate the structure of doubly magic nickel-78 and its neighbors. Image credit: Oak Ridge...
New research by a Rice University marketing professor debunks a long-held belief by companies that they could charge more for locally produced goods and services because of consumers' sense of attachment to their community. The study, published in the...
The coordinated cyber attack that crippled parts of the internet on Friday highlighted key policy problems, a Stanford cybersecurity scholar said.
And while the problems were clear, there are no easy solutions, said Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar for...
Researchers used sample images, like the ones on the top row, to identify several visual features that are highly correlated with judgments that a particular area is safe or unsafe. The left side shows a low level of safety...
