Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested.
No, the debate over the risks of cellphone radiation isn’t over yet. The US National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program has published details of draft studies which suggest that normal cellphone radiation levels aren’t harmful to humans. The research subjected rats to very high levels of RF radiation at 2G and 3G cellular frequencies, […]
A federal judge has imposed a permanent injunction on Arizona education officials, barring them from enforcing a 2010 law that banned public schools in Tucson from teaching Mexican-American and other ethnic studies. Ninth Circuit Judge Wallace Tashima ruled that Arizona violated the First and Fourteenth Amendment when it enacted HB 2281, a bill that prohibited […]
Enlarge (credit: Texas Military Department) The story explaining the incredible flooding in Houston during Hurricane Harvey has many chapters, ranging from meteorology to the history of groundwater use and development zoning. The chapter on climate change has already had a few pages filled in, thanks to a study quickly published by MIT hurricane scientist Kerry […]
New, long-acting drugs may hold hope for millions of people who often suffer migraines. Studies of two of these medicines, given as shots every month or so, found they cut the frequency of the notoriously painful and disabling headaches. CBC | Health News
Enlarge / Nicolas Guéguen may have something to say about Audrey Hepburn’s dress in Funny Face, but is his research on solid ground? Two fellow researchers question that. (credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images) Psychologist Nicolas Guéguen publishes studies that create irresistible headlines. His research investigating the effects of wearing high heels made it into Time: “Science […]
Also: U.S.-style ads for a shingles vaccine are popping up in Canada — and they’re perfectly legal. CBC | Health News
Flickr/Coralie Ferreira New evidence shows the sugar industry suppressed scientific research that linked sugar to heart disease and bladder cancer in rats. The Sugar Research Foundation, the group funding the studies, cut the project short and didn’t publish the results. Nutritionists caution that sugar, not fat, is largely to blame for many of the problems in our modern diets. For decades, sugar lobbyists […]
Jemal Countess/Getty Images Sherry Turkle is an MIT psychologist who has been studying human relationships to technology for several decades. As smartphones and devices become harder to resist, Turkle said she’s made a conscious effort to use them only when necessary. She acknowledged not all tech is bad, and still loves using her computer to […]
A new study finds the legalization of cannabis in Colorado was associated with “a statistically significant reduction” in opioid-related deaths. Another study shows that long-term use of marijuana changes the brain at a cellular level. On Monday, researchers from Brigham Young University’s neuroscience department published a study in the journal JNeurosci that found long-term use […]
Enlarge (credit: Volvo) Infotainment systems in new cars are getting too complex, according to a study commissioned by the AAA Foundation. The research, which tested 30 different 2017 model year vehicles, found that many functions—most notably entering a new navigation destination—are so distracting that they should not be performed by the driver while the vehicle […]
