These are the viruses that defined 2024 - Science News
Dec 12, 2024 · Climate change, El Niño and urbanization may have played a part in the massive outbreak, according to the WHO.. Rising temperatures may have boosted dengue transmission by around 18 percent in ...
Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence …
Feb 20, 2024 · Citations. L. Braghieri, R. Levy and A. Makarin. Social media and mental health.American Economic Review.Vol. 112, November 2022, p. 3660. doi: 10.1257/aer.20211218.
Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why - Science News
Aug 7, 2024 · In the decades since, UFOs have often come to be dismissed by scientists as the province of wackos and thus unworthy of study. The term UFO has a smirk factor to it, says Iain Boyd, an aerospace ...
Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first …
Feb 16, 2024 · Citations. H. Abu-Shawareb et al. Achievement of target gain larger than unity in an inertial fusion experiment. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 132, February 9, 2024 ...
Handwriting may boost brain connections more than typing does
Jan 26, 2024 · Citations. A. van der Meer and F.R. van Der Weel. Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom.
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Can humans get chronic wasting disease from deer? - Science News
Jun 10, 2024 · A doe and her young fawn cross a road in Rocky Mountain National Park in May 2022. Chronic wasting disease has spread widely across the United States since it was first discovered in the park’s ...
The historic ‘Wow!’ signal may finally have a source. Sorry, it’s not ...
Aug 21, 2024 · A printout of data taken at the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Ohio in 1977 prompted its discoverer to write “Wow!” in the margins. The signal has befuddled astronomers ever since.
Are synthetic food dyes bad for you? Here's the science.
Oct 28, 2024 · Citations. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Potential neurobehavioral effects of synthetic food dyes in children.April 2021.