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 Panda passion: Study reveals secret of fruitful captive breeding Read More » See the 'Star Wars' Worlds Exoplanet Scientists Can't Help But Love Read More » Smuggled Ancient Wall Carving Returned to Egypt Read More » New X Prize Challenge: Map Ocean Floor Yesterday (Dec. 14), Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of X Prize, announced the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery X Prize, a three-year global competition that challenges researchers to build better technologies for mapping what Diamandis called one of the "greatest unexplored frontiers" — Earth's seafloor. "Our oceans cover two-thirds of our planet's surface and are a crucial global source of food, energy, economic security and even the air we breathe, yet 95 percent of the deep sea remains a mystery to us," Diamandis said yesterday at a keynote address during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Right now, researchers have better maps of Mars than they do of Earth's seafloor, he added. Read More »Drought Could Kill Off Many of the World's Trees Drought could kill vast swaths of forests around the world if global warming isn't contained, new research suggests. What's more, climate predictions seem to suggest that droughts will be much more common in the United States, said William Anderegg, a biologist at Princeton University who studies forests and climate change. "The droughts of the future look to be more frequent and more severe," Anderegg said here yesterday (Dec. 14) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Read More »Satellite Imagery Reveals Most Lightning-Prone Places on Earth Read More » Young Smokers May Be Switching to Cigarette Alternatives The percentage of young adults in the United States who smoke cigarettes has dropped in recent years, but the decline could be due to this population switching from cigarettes to other forms of tobacco, a new poll suggests. The Gallup poll found that over the last decade, the smoking rate among 18- to 29-year-olds in the United States dropped 12 percentage points: from 34 percent of people in this age group smoking in 2001-2005 to 22 percent in 2011-2015. In past years, young adults were more likely than people over 30 to smoke cigarettes, but now, the smoking rate among young adults is similar to the rate among people ages 30 to 49 and those ages 50 to 64, Gallup said. Read More »Stress May Raise Risk of Memory Problems in Older People Feeling very high amounts of stress may increase older people's risk of developing the memory problems that often precede Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. Researchers found that older people in the study who were highly stressed were more than twice as likely to develop problems with their memory as those who had low levels of stress. The new results suggest that finding ways to lower stress levels in older people early on may help delay, or even prevent, the onset of Alzheimer's disease, the researchers said. Read More »Shingles Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke A bout of shingles may increase your risk for other serious health conditions — namely, a stroke or a heart attack — a new study finds. People in the study who had shingles, a disease caused by the herpes zoster virus, faced a 2.4-fold increased risk of stroke, and a 1.7-fold increased risk of heart attack during the first week following their shingles diagnosis, according to the findings published today (Dec. 15) in the journal PLOS Medicine. Because cardiovascular events are major causes of mortality, it's important to understand what causes these events, and what can be done to prevent them, said Caroline Minassian, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the lead author on the study. Read More »Zika Virus Spreading in the Americas: What You Should Know Read More » Better Watch Out for Deer Ticks This Holiday Season Read More » Citizen Scientists Reveal Wildlife Changes as Sea Ice Melts (Op-Ed) Read More » When Is 'Gene Editing' Dangerous? (Video) Robert Sanders, media relations officer for the University of California, Berkeley, contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. What if correcting the sickle cell mutation in the human genome made people more susceptible to malaria? These are the potential dangers of making changes to the human genome that can be passed down to future generations, and an issue that has become more urgent with the advent of CRISPR-Ca9, an easy-to-use and cheap way to precisely edit animal and plant genomes. Read More »The Universe is Dying? Now What? Read More » Should Families Going Through Divorce Have Court-Ordered Psychiatrists? (Op-Ed) In 2003, Mejias became the first Latino elected to the Nassau County Legislature, where he served from 2004 to 2010. Divorce is an all too common occurrence that can cause families to put their children at risk for a lifetime of daily mental and emotional problems. According to psychologist Judith Wallerstein, who followed a group of children of divorce for 25 years, divorce is not a sudden obstacle the child faces, but a life-changing occurrence that alters their self-views and their opinion of the world at large. Read More » | ||||
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