Both boys and girls have issues but boys are getting a raw deal, according to Judith Kleinfeld, professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US.
It's commonplace to hear about gender-specific issues involving girls but when there are concerns about issues primarily affecting boys, responses tend to veer toward sexism. Issues impacting boys have been neglected by policy makers, she says. Her review of issues characterizing American boyhood, how they compare to those affecting girls, and the lack of initiatives in place to address them was published in the June issue of Springer's journal Gender Issues.
Activists tend to point to someone else's job and say it's for the good of the planet that it disappear. But everyone need to cut back, including climate scientists, says a researcher who, ironically, regularly flies north to study the health of caribou.
Scientists studying the impact of climate change on the Arctic need to consider ways to reduce their own carbon footprints, according to postdoctoral fellow Ryan Brook in the June issue of Arctic, the journal of the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America. Brook calls on scientists to show leadership by examining and sharing ways to reduce the impact of working in polar regions.
If you live in California, Bakersfield is just a place where farming mega-corporations grow a lot of stuff. If you're remotely literate, you remember it as the 'Promised Land' the "Okies" left home for in The Grapes of Wrath. If you like pop culture, it is part of the Route 66 highway(1), which became famous in a song first sung by Nat King Cole(2).
But Bakersfield's rich central farmland was once the Temblor Sea, thanks to global warming, and the fossil remains tell a science tale.
A recent survey of 'dark' gamma-ray bursts, which are bright in gamma- and X-ray emissions, but have little or no visible light, are giving us a look into the dusty corners of otherwise dust-free galaxies.
Star formation occurs in dense clouds that quickly fill with dust as the most massive stars rapidly age and explode, spewing newly created elements into the interstellar medium to seed new star formation. Hence, astronomers presume that a large amount of star formation is occurring in dust-filled galaxies, although actually measuring how much dust this process has built up in the most distant galaxies has proved extremely challenging.
Who doesn't every elderly person have a cognitive function decline as they age? Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active are correlated to maintained cognitive skills through their 70s and 80s, according to research published in the June 9, 2009, print issue of Neurology.
INGELHEIM, Germany, June 6 /PRNewswire/ --
- Results From Linagliptin Study in Type 2 Diabetes Patients Who Were Inadequately Controlled on Metformin Therapy Alone, Presented at Major Diabetes Meeting
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Tony La Russa, manager of baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals, recently sued Twitter, claiming that an unauthorized page using his name damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress. It's true, anyone can sign onto Twitter and claim to be a celebrity but it can happen anywhere in the world of social media.
Media personality Keith Olbermann also was a victim of Twitter fraud - yes, someone out there said things so ridiculously partisan even Keith Olbermann was concerned about his portrayal and CNN recently acquired the rights to CNNbrk (CNN Breaking News), the largest Twitter account on record with 959,011 followers, 'owned' by James Cox, who doesn't even work for CNN.
Core-collapse (or gravitational) supernovae are among the most energetic and violent events in the universe and constitute the final tremendous explosions in the life cycles of stars 8 times more massive than our Sun.
After running out of fuel, the core of such a star collapses and forms a neutron star or a black hole. At the same time, the outer layers are ejected at high velocity (up to 10% of the speed of light) and shine as brightly as billions of stars together.
To provide some perspective, the total energy suddenly released by such a supernova exceeds the total energy release by our Sun to-date; and also in the next 10 billion years.
Space weather can kill astronauts. This is one of the motivations for funding space weather. Solar events-- flares, particle storms, and coronal mass ejections-- can knock out GPS and cell phone reception, screw up radio and radar, and endanger airline pilots flying the polar routes. All of these damaging effects are well worth mitigating.
But what about circumstances higher up?
In an article titled
Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare, NASA reports on their upcoming experiment to see just how much damage a solar flare would cause to an unprotected astronaut.
